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UNICEF warns children in Burundi are bearing the brunt of the mpox outbreak, with cases of this deadly, infectious disease spreading rapidly among this young population. Ahead of the Tunisian presidential election, the security services, judicial authorities and the High Independent Electoral Authority have blocked or officially barred more than a dozen potential candidates from running. World leaders are gathering for their annual meetings at the United Nations starting Sunday, and the wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine will be center stage.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says both sides in Sudan’s conflict must come to the negotiating table to work on implementing agreements to stop their brutal fight. World financial markets got a boost today after the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point. Zimbabwe's government says it is considering a proposal to cull its elephant population to address food shortages and reduce the effects of a drought, but some conservationists are pushing back.

Fierce fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has taken place for months in El Fasher. U.N. Security Council members renewed calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities in El Fasher. Joseph Siegle, a political scientist at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, discussed the RSF’s decision to ignore calls from the UNSC and the U.S. to end the fighting. VOA’s senior analyst Mohamed Elshinnawi.

There have been new blasts in Lebanon, a day after exploding pagers killed at least 12 people and wounded almost 3,000 in Lebanon, in an attack widely blamed on Israel. The United Nations Security Council and the United States have called for an immediate cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of all belligerents in Sudan’s El Fasher, but the Rapid Support Forces continue to press the assault. Kenya’s Ministry of Health says more than 6,000 women die in the country each year due to poor access to maternal health facilities, but university students have developed new technology to help mothers.

The United States has committed billions of dollars to support the global response to the clade I mpox outbreak, which is spreading across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries. More than 400 million children around the world are not getting the nutrients they need to thrive, and philanthropist Bill Gates tells VOA malnutrition needs more attention. In the Sahel, Russia’s Wagner Group has capitalized on the absence of foreign involvement to expand its influence by protecting coup leaders and fighting militants, but the group’s success has been limited.

The man suspected of planning to shoot former U.S. president Donald Trump has appeared in court in the U.S. state of Florida, a day after the Secret Service prevented an apparent assassination attempt. The USAfrica Business Week in New York brings together African and U.S. leaders to enhance trade and investment between the continent and the United States. The signatories of South Sudan’s 2018 peace agreement have extended the transitional government of national unity for another two years.

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 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump is now history. How did they both perform? What was the high and low points for both in the debate? Do debates move the needle one way or the other for voters? For answers Africa News Tonight Host Yeheyes Wuhib talked to US election expert Karen Hult, Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech University.

In the U.S. presidential election, the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald Trump, clashed with his Democratic Party rival, Kamala Harris, over issues such as abortion, immigration and foreign policy. A Nigerian international affairs expert says the candidates brought up issues important to Africa in their debate. Around the United States, people marked the anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, which began what the U.S. called the Global War on Terrorism against al-Qaida and groups such as the Islamic State and its Africa affiliates.