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Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics and the African diaspora.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office for the second time in his political career, making him the nation’s 47th president.
This and more on today’s Africa News Tonight!
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
A scheduled Thursday vote in Israel on a peace deal between Hamas and Israel was delayed. It's a setback to hopes that an end to the fighting was near. US President Biden and Qatar's prime minister announced separately that Israel and Hamas reached a multiphase ceasefire deal for ending the war in Gaza. VOA's Carol Van Dam asked Edmund Ghareeb, a Lebanese-American scholar at the Washington Institute for Peace and Development whether the delay means the ceasefire could be in serious jeopardy.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, has suspended its activities at one of the few hospitals still operating in Sudan’s capital because of attacks from fighters in Sudan’s conflict. We take a look at the significance of Somalia and Ethiopia’s restoration of diplomatic ties. One of the world’s biggest steelmakers, ArcelorMittal, says it will stop operating in South Africa at the end of January, and industry experts expect Africa’s largest economy could lose 100,000 jobs as a result.
In South Africa, a video has surfaced showing more than a hundred dead bodies in a disused gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped for more than six months. France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies and fresh tensions were ignited with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron. One of Africa’s top security research organizations says terrorist groups on the continent are recruiting children as young as 11 and training them as extremist fighters.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
Speakers including his grandsons and President Joe Biden gave eulogies for former President Jimmy Carter today at his state funeral in Washington D.C. The people of Ebonyi state in southeast Nigeria are expressing gratitude to the late President, who led efforts to eradicate Guinea worm in their area. Thousands of people turned out today to meet Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane after he returned home from more than two months in exile as he asserts that he won the October presidential election.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s body is lying in state in the Capitol in Washington, and people began lining up at 4 a.m. today despite cold, windy conditions. Chad's government has reiterated its order for French troops to completely withdraw from the country before the end of this month, after French President Emmanuel Macron said African countries are ungrateful for France's role in fighting militant insurgencies. The United States says it has determined Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Force is committing genocide in the country's war, as Turkey steps up its efforts to mediate in a conflict that has regional influences.
Fears are growing in the Maghreb countries about Syria’s release of prisoners, because some of those freed might be militants from the region who will want to return home. Ivory Coast joins a growing list of countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, and Senegal, that have severed military ties with France, their former colonial ruler. The small island nation of the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa has become the unlikely setting of a great-power rivalry.
Today US lawmakers gather for a joint session of Congress to certify Donald Trump's presidential election win --a procedure that happens every four years after the vote and two weeks before the president's inauguration. 2024 was a year of conflict, with wars in Gaza and Ukraine claiming thousands of lives, and Africa was not spared, with conflict in Sudan, rebel attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and terrorism across the Sahel region. Cameroon’s military says it has seized several hundred weapons and combat uniforms that were being smuggled to a hideout of the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.
Since its enactment in 2000, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, has been at the core of U.S. economic policy and commercial engagement with Africa and one expert says African nations should work together on trade talks. More than 1.1 million doses of an oral cholera vaccine have arrived in South Sudan, as the government launched a program to inoculate more than 80 percent of the population. The 119th U.S. Congress will come into session Friday, but after a contentious battle over government funding last month, the Republican Party’s seemingly unified control of the Senate, House of Representatives and presidency faces challenges.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says authorities are carrying out searches in New Orleans and areas outside the southern U.S. state of Louisiana as part of their investigation into a deadly New Year’s Day attack in the city’s popular French Quarter. Entering 2025, at least 20 African countries are bankrupt or at high risk of defaulting on debt repayments, according to global financial institutions. The Camp David Accords, signed by the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
In Washington, plans are well underway for the funeral ceremonies for former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100. In Guinea, a coalition of social groups made up of the opposition and civil society organizations says that after today, they will no longer recognize the military government in power. The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused Apple, one of the world’s biggest technology companies, of using conflict minerals in its products, an allegation Apple denies.
Leaders from around the world are paying tribute to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, who recalled Carter as “an outspoken critic of the apartheid state.” Former President Carter was touring villages in Ghana during the late 1980s when he first encountered people with Guinea worm disease, and he led the fight to eliminate it. The situation remains tense in much of Kenya following fresh protests by young adults, who are angry over alleged extrajudicial abductions of government critics.
Nigerian authorities in northwest Sokoto state have launched a probe into a military airstrike that killed at least 10 people this week. Tensions continue to mount in Chad, with opposition and civil society groups vowing to disrupt Sunday’s local council, regional and parliamentary elections. Namibia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy Commissioner has opened a criminal case against China’s Xinfeng Investments for alleged illegal mining of lithium in the country’s northwest.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the chair of the Southern Africa Development Community, has said the regional bloc is ready to assist Mozambique as it grapples with post-election violence. Two decades ago, a devastating tsunami hit East African nations along the Indian Ocean, killing over 300 people, and some experts say early warning systems and disaster preparedness to help prevent such losses still are inadequate. A new report says the promotion of bioeconomy – the use of biological resources to sustain communities - holds promise for rural areas in Africa and elsewhere, as the world copes with climate change.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.
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