Broadcast Schedule

Each morning, Daybreak Africa looks at the latest developments on the continent, starting with headline news and providing in-depth interviews, reports from VOA correspondents, sports news as well as listener comments.

African Beat showcases the latest and the greatest of contemporary African music and conversation. From Benga to Juju, Hip Life to Bongo Flava, Bubu to Soukous and more, host David Vandy has his finger on the pulse of the hottest African music and related issues today.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: Ex-Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, who was ousted in 2014, has returned to the West African nation from exile for the first time following an invite by the military junta. Compaore will partake in a meeting between interim President Paul-Henri Damiba and former President Roch Kabore to discuss matters of “higher interests to the nation"; UNICEF officials say Ethiopia’s drought-stricken population could face a full-blown famine if the Horn of Africa nation does not receive immediate help.

Keitumetse Dithebe is smiling after scoring Botswana's first-ever goal at the Africa Women's Cup of Nations football tournament in Morocco. Botswana is one of four teams making their debuts at the African women's football showpiece. On Thursday's show, we'll have commentary from Lokeder Natiom, a female sports journalist who is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Also on the program, the third and final part of Prince Nesta's conversation with Chris Pietsch, director of photography for The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene, Oregon, on next week's World Athletics Championships in Eugene.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: African energy experts say the fuel price hikes experienced on the continent are triggered by Africa not having ownership of the oil it produces and the war in Ukraine; African Union senior official Moussa Faki Mahamat is urging Ethiopia to probe into the killings of hundreds in the Horn of Africa nations western Oromia region.