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.

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.

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 growth.

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.

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 win for all sides. He starts out by explaining why Angola assumed the role of mediator.

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.

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 of tariffs.

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.