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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.

The two main candidates for U.S. president are making what they call their "closing arguments" to voters in this final week before the election. Some international relations analysts say the outcome of next week’s election in the United States will have a profound influence on Washington’s relations with Africa, especially regarding trade, security and climate change initiatives. In war-stricken Omdurman, Sudan's most populous city, community-funded soup kitchens are feeding those in need with little help from the international community.

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.

A judge in Malawi has charged opposition leader Patricia Kaliati with conspiracy to murder President Lazarus Chakwera. Kaliati is the Secretary General of the United Transformation Movement (UTM), the party of the late Vice President Saulos Chilima who died in June in a plane crash. She was arrested and jailed last week without charge. UTM spokesperson Felix Njawala tells VOA’s James Butty, that the judge also granted Kaliati bail with stern conditions, including a cash bond of 1 million kwacha (about $500) and the surrender of her passport.

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.

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.

Thousands of people have gathered today outside Mozambique's capital for the burial of a slain opposition lawyer as the country awaits the election results. Kenya's impeached Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua told reporters Sunday that his security team had been withdrawn, and he said that should anything happen to him, President William Ruto should be held responsible. About two dozen world leaders are meeting in Russia for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western influence in global markets and politics.

The United Nations envoy to Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has proposed reviving an old proposal for partitioning the disputed Western Sahara as one way to satisfy all sides. The Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, is calling for women to be involved in peace and reconciliation efforts in war-torn Sudan. American expatriates in Burkina Faso are preparing to exercise their civic duty by voting in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

There have been protests today in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, and police fired tear gas to disperse people who gathered where two opposition party figures were shot dead on Saturday after a disputed election. The World Food Program says almost 30 million people in southern Africa are affected by the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades. The U.S. Justice Department says two Sudanese citizens are charged with allegedly running a computer hacking group, and a cybersecurity expert says the lack of opportunity for young people in Africa encourages many on the continent to turn to hacking.

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.

The impeachment trial of Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was thrown into disarray today after his lawyer said he had fallen ill and was in the hospital. Dai Bing, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, says external armed forces and mercenaries should withdraw from Libya as soon as possible. A top official of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce hopes the next U.S. president shows a renewed interest in Africa.

Kenya's Senate today launched the impeachment trial of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua after the embattled politician lost another court bid to stop the process. The war in Sudan has escalated in recent weeks, and the commander of the Rapid Support Forces has accused Egypt of helping the Sudanese army. Chad is pleading for urgent international assistance for more than two million people affected by floods, which have claimed at least 600 lives.

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.

As the toll of deaths and injuries has climbed, doctors from around the world have volunteered to try to ease the suffering in Gaza. The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia and Counterterrorism, has criticized the results of Tunisia’s presidential election. On this International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF estimates more than 370 million girls and women experience rape or sexual assault before age 18, and the highest rate of sexual assaults is in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ballots are being counted by hand in Mozambique’s presidential election, a process that could continue for several days. The human rights organization Amnesty International says three sub-Saharan African countries considering ending the death penalty should do so now, paving the way for others around the world to follow in their footsteps. The condition and exact whereabouts of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya remained unclear Thursday, after the government said he was alive in Geneva, Switzerland, in response to rumors on social media that he had died.

Voters in Mozambique have gone to the polls to elect a new president. At a VOA town hall, experts explore the role the African diaspora has in the U.S. elections, and how the vote could affect relations between Washington and the continent. Experts warn the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on a downward spiral as violations and abuse, violence and conflict escalate.