TV Schedule

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling for the World Bank to undertake additional reforms this year to expand its ability to help developing countries meet global challenges. The 9th edition of the Africa Fintech Summit is underway in Washington D.C. Wednesday with representatives from leading innovators, investors and government representatives in attendance. And…U.S. President Joe Biden is in Ireland meeting leaders to discuss a 1998 peace agreement that ended over a quarter-century of sectarian conflict in British-held Northern Ireland between pro-British Unionists and nationalists. We’ll tell you what’s at stake. All these and much more coming up on today’s Africa 54!

Coming up on Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and reporters discuss South Africa’s move to send envoys to Washington to discuss Pretoria's relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We’ll have the latest on the major leak of U.S. classified documents about the war in the Ukraine and discuss its impact. Plus, we’ll have an in-depth interview with Chris Maroleng from Good Governance Africa about a rise in populism, as well as democratic backsliding in some parts of Africa and around the world. Guests include Govan Whittles,   Newzroom Afrika's politics reporter, Carla Babb,  VOA's Pentagon correspondent and Tatenda Gumbo, VOA Africa's digital managing editor.