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Africa News Tonight: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns that cease-fire violators in Sudan will be held accountable as the latest agreement between the country’s two warring factions failed to hold hours after going into effect. Mauritania’s ruling party took a landslide victory in legislative, regional and municipal elections on May 13, according to official results. And, the delayed rape trial of Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko resumed in the capital Dakar today as his party called for "resistance" and a national shutdown. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Humanitarian groups say they need full funding of the United Nation’s seven-billion-dollar appeal for help to the Horn of Africa during this week’s pledge conference, pointing to the region’s growing crisis. Khartoum residents nervously held on to hopes of life returning to normal as they waited to see if Sudan’s latest ceasefire would take root or fall apart like previous attempts. And, Reuters news reports thousands of people demonstrated today in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region to demand the return home of people displaced by a two-year war and the withdrawal of outside forces who have remained since the conflict ended. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: With a deadline for implementing a cease-fire looming, Sudan’s capital awoke today to the sound of air strikes and anti-aircraft fire for the 37th consecutive day.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday commissioned an oil plant billed as Africa's largest oil refinery, after years of delays and a week before stepping down from office. Plus, a few weeks ago, Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank introduced a cryptocurrency using digital gold coins. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: South African health authorities have warned citizens to take extreme precautions as an outbreak of cholera has killed up to a dozen people and raised fears that it could spread to other parts of the country. With a deadline for implementation of a cease-fire looming, Sudan’s capital awoke today to the sound of air strikes and anti-aircraft fire for the 37th consecutive day. And, a young Ugandan man orphaned at childhood dreams of playing in U.S. major league baseball and has turned his training into a social media sensation. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Authorities in Zimbabwe today started releasing 4,270 prison inmates who were granted amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier this month ahead of general elections. Officials in Cameroon have shut down markets in an attempt to stop a wave of cholera infections spreading through all 10 regions of the central African state. And, Amnesty International and Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission have released a joint report saying the Kakuma refugee camp is not safe for nearly one thousand members of the LGBTQ community. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The U.N. refugee agency, or UNHCR, said today that more than a million people have been displaced by recent fighting in Sudan, including about 250,000 refugees. Nigerian police rescued two abducted staff of a United States consulate early today. And, the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, along with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, agreed to implement a plan to voluntarily repatriate refugees to their countries of origin. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: In Cameroon, thousands of people are demonstrating this week, calling for peace and reconciliation ahead of National Day on May 20. A medical and surgical team from Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF, has started treating patients at Bashair Teaching Hospital on the south side of Khartoum as ongoing violence rapidly increases medical needs in the capital and elsewhere. And, local officials say the death toll in fighting between herders and farmers in central Nigeria has risen to 85, with thousands displaced. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: In Sudan, hospitals and health facilities have struggled to keep operating since intense fighting broke out last month in Khartoum and rapidly spread to other parts of the country. The leaders of the Group of Seven nations arrived in Hiroshima, Japan, today for their annual summit. And, now, analysts with knowledge of South Africa’s arms sector say it’s unlikely that Pretoria sold arms to Russia. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has visited the scene of the flooding disaster in the east. More than 1,000 shops in Tanzania's busiest market remained shut for a third day today as traders protested a new tax, in a rare public demonstration against the government. And, Gunmen targeted a convoy of U.S. Embassy staffers in southeast Nigeria, yesterday, killing two of its Nigerian workers and two policemen. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says preparations are being made for a delegation of six African heads of state to visit Eastern Europe to discuss a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Gunmen targeted a convoy of U.S. Embassy staffers in southeast Nigeria, yesterday, killing two of its Nigerian workers and two policemen. Plus, officials in Cameroon say 18 separatists have disarmed and surrendered to authorities in the biggest defection since the conflict broke out in 2017.

For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!