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Africa News Tonight: Today is World Refugee Day, designated by the United Nations to honor people forced from their homes around the globe. With Mali’s demand on Friday that UN peacekeepers leave, there are worries the 10-year mission aimed at protecting civilians will unravel and the West African country will fall deeper into chaos. Plus, With Mali’s demand on Friday that UN peacekeepers leave, there are worries the 10-year mission aimed at protecting civilians will unravel and the West African country will fall deeper into chaos. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says the first quarter of 2023 has been the deadliest on record for refugees. Thousands of Sudanese continue to flee the war in their country every day, with many making the long trek south to Kenya. And, Vote counting continues in Mali’s constitutional referendum, held Sunday. Mali's military junta organized the referendum as a step toward a return to constitutional rule and a new presidential election expected next year in the West African country. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Some residents of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, say they have not heard any gunshots since a 72-hour cease-fire began Sunday morning. Ugandan security forces have stepped up patrols along the frontier with the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. And, Ahead of tomorrow’s World Refugee Day, humanitarian agencies are distributing aid to the nearly 500,000 refugees who live in Cameroon. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Ugandan police say they have arrested 20 suspected collaborators of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, who allegedly killed 42 people in a school Friday night. In Africa, opinion is divided about the continent’s diplomatic mission to Russia and Ukraine to try to end the conflict in Eastern Europe. And,

Three Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed, and more than 10 others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device yesterday in coastal Lamu County. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after meeting African leaders in Kyiv on Friday that peace talks with Russia would be possible only after Moscow withdraws its forces from occupied Ukrainian territory. The United States has condemned human rights violations committed in Sudan’s two-month-old violence, particularly reports of sexual violence and targeting of civilians along ethnic lines by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in West Darfur State. And, Young people in South Africa today commemorated Youth Day with a loud call for the government to pay more attention to the many challenges that they face. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Presidents Macky Sall of Senegal and Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa are heading a delegation that is visiting Kyiv today and St. Petersburg tomorrow to press for an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Mali's military is holding a referendum on a new constitution Sunday, a key step toward a return to constitutional rule and a presidential election expected next year in the West African country. And, The World Food Program is scaling up food aid to support 5.9 million people across Sudan over the next six months as hunger rises in the war-torn country. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: A parliamentary committee in Zimbabwe says new nomination fees for candidates in the August elections will stand. The governor of Sudan’s West Darfur State, Kharmis Abdullah Abbakar, was killed yesterday after claiming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, and allied militias were committing genocide against civilians in the state capital Geneina. And, Rescue ships fanned out today off the southern coast of Greece, searching for hundreds of migrants feared missing after a fishing boat capsized and sank as they were trying to get to Europe. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: At least 78 migrants have drowned and hundreds more remain missing and feared dead after their battered and overloaded boat capsized off the coast of Greece. The governor of Sudan’s West Darfur State, Kharmis Abdullah Abbakar, was killed yesterday after claiming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, and allied militias were committing genocide against civilians in the state capital Geneina. And, Analysts say the international community is reluctant to put pressure on Chad’s government to transition to civilian rule. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says thousands of people fleeing conflict in Sudan and seeking safety in Chad’s eastern border provinces may lose access to vital humanitarian and medical aid when the impending rainy season begins. The Greek Shipping Ministry says at least 78 people drowned today in the Aegean Sea after a large fishing vessel carrying migrants sank off the southern coast of Greece. And, it’s been a year since armed men in Nigeria’s southwest Ondo state rushed into St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church during a Mass and attacked worshippers, killing 41 people and injuring scores of others. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Workneh Gebeyehu, the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), is urging Sudan’s warring factions to cease hostilities and resolve the situation through dialogue. The UN refugee agency reports the number of people who have been forcibly displaced by war, persecution, human rights abuses and climate change reached an all-time high of 108.4 million last year. And, others have tried and failed, and now six African leaders are heading to Moscow and Kyiv in the coming days to try to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict. South Africa -- leading the delegation -- has been accused of favoring Russia, despite its officially neutral stance on the war. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!