https://www.voaafrica.com/z/1438 A lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. New features look at science and technology, environmental issues, and humanitarian topics. https://www.voaafrica.com/Content/responsive/VOA/en-US-AFK/img/logo.png https://www.voaafrica.com/z/1438 en 2026 - VOA 60 Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:01:29 +0000 Pangea CMS – VOA Namibians returned to vote today in 36 re-opened polling stations, two days after the country’s election was marred by technical problems. U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola next week, after his administration has forged close economic ties with the oil-rich southern African country. Celebrations are under way to mark the 25th anniversary of the East African Community in Arusha, Tanzania, as partner states work to eliminate barriers to cross-border trade and enhance regional economic... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8012066.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8012066.html Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioSportsPolitics Africa 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8010241.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8010241.html Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8008884.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8008884.html Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8007537.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8007537.html Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006099.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006099.html Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight Namibians returned to vote today in 36 re-opened polling stations, two days after the country’s election was marred by technical problems. U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola next week, after his administration has forged close economic ties with the oil-rich southern African country. Celebrations are under way to mark the 25th anniversary of the East African Community in Arusha, Tanzania, as partner states work to eliminate barriers to cross-border trade and enhance regional economic... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8004677.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8004677.html Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioSportsPolitics Africa 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8001867.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8001867.html Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7999489.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7999489.html Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006851.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006851.html Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 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. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006847.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006847.html Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight Namibians returned to vote today in 36 re-opened polling stations, two days after the country’s election was marred by technical problems. U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola next week, after his administration has forged close economic ties with the oil-rich southern African country. Celebrations are under way to mark the 25th anniversary of the East African Community in Arusha, Tanzania, as partner states work to eliminate barriers to cross-border trade and enhance regional economic... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006844.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006844.html Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioSportsPolitics Africa Six weeks after the M23 captured Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, banks still aren’t functioning, there is a threat of violence, and hunger is rising. President Donald Trump's administration is considering downsizing the U.S. Africa Command, known as AFRICOM, as part of its broader efforts to reduce the size of the Pentagon. Tropical Cyclone Jude slammed into parts of southern Africa this week, causing no deaths but widespread damage, especially in Malawi and Mozambique. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006837.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006837.html Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioConflictPolitics Africa Angola has announced it plans to act as a mediator in the conflict between Congo and the Rwandan-backed rebel group M23. Felix Tshisekedi, the president of Congo, was in Angola to discuss a potential peace process. Angola will begin to establish contacts with both the Congolese government and M23 rebels with direct negotiations to be carried out in the coming days. David Monda Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York tells VOA’s Yeheyes Wuhib the peace overture is a... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/angola-to-mediate-peace-talks-between-drc-and-m23-/8009631.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/angola-to-mediate-peace-talks-between-drc-and-m23-/8009631.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:33:25 +0000 Africa News Tonight Africa News Tonight Clipswebdesk@voanews.com (Yeheyes Wuhib) Angola will begin to establish contacts with both the Democratic Republic of Congo government and M23 rebels with direct peace negotiations to be carried out in the coming days. Forty prominent Tunisian opposition figures remain in detention, after a judge postponed their court proceedings until next month. In Prince George’s County, Maryland, Fire Station 802 in Capitol Heights is donating essential firefighting gear and equipment to the west African nation of Liberia. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006834.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006834.html Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioConflictPolitics Africa The Democratic Republic of Congo is talking to the United States in its bid to find an ally in the government’s battle against the M23 rebels. There are warnings that South Sudan risks sliding back to civil war after recent clashes and the arrests of some opposition leaders. Talk of tariffs combined with fears of inflation sent the U.S. stock market tumbling Monday and again on Tuesday, a day of give and take between the United States and Canada, with President Donald Trump defending his use... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006829.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/8006829.html Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioConflictUSABusiness and TechnologyAfrica At a summit in Cairo this week, an alternative plan was launched to reconstruct Gaza without moving Palestinians. US National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said the Arab plan “does not address the reality that Gaza is uninhabitable and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris.” Ambassador Ayman Zaineldin, former director of media at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry discussed the options for Gaza with VOA senior analyst Mohamed Elshinnawi. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/plan-to-reconstruct-gaza-without-moving-palestinians-launched-at-cairo-summit/8007148.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/plan-to-reconstruct-gaza-without-moving-palestinians-launched-at-cairo-summit/8007148.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:12:13 +0000 Africa News Tonight webdesk@voanews.com (Mohamed Elshinnawi) Some medical scientists and pharmaceutical companies say the United States’ decision to halt most aid to Africa means the continent won’t be able to make its own vaccines for quite some time. Darren Taylor reports. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/africa-not-able-to-make-vaccines-with-us-funding-cuts-say-scientists/8007133.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/africa-not-able-to-make-vaccines-with-us-funding-cuts-say-scientists/8007133.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:58:30 +0000 Africa News Tonight webdesk@voanews.com (Darren Taylor) The former governor of Kasai Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo says dialogue, not bounties on rebels, is needed to halt fighting in the country’s east. Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to maintain security as tensions rise between the government and opposition leadership. Officials from the United States and Ukraine are in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Ukraine’s war with Russia, with Kyiv’s negotiators expected to present a partial ceasefire... https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7986766.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7986766.html Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioConflictWorldAfrica Doctors Without Borders says repeated attacks in Sudan’s White Nile state has led to a deadly cholera outbreak. Since February 20, the French medical charity known as MSF says more than 2700 patients have been admitted to the Ministry of Health’s cholera treatment center at Kosti Teaching Hospital. MSF Sudan Coordinator Marta Cazarola tells VOA’s Carol Van Dam the hospital many patients had to be treated on the floor. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/more-than-2700-cholera-patients-hospitalized-in-sudan-at-white-nile-state-hospital-/8005566.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/more-than-2700-cholera-patients-hospitalized-in-sudan-at-white-nile-state-hospital-/8005566.html Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:01:49 +0000 Africa News Tonight webdesk@voanews.com (Carol Van Dam) The M23 armed group has pushed deeper into the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mineral-rich eastern region after capturing the key cities of Goma and Bukavu in recent weeks. Some people sheltering in displacement camps in Sudan’s Gedaref state say they need food and medical care. In Morocco, the faithful observe Ramadan with some special traditions and some common rituals shared with other Muslims around the world. https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7985470.html https://www.voaafrica.com/a/7985470.html Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:05:04 +0000 Africa News Tonight AudioConflictRefugeesPolitics Africa