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Africa News Tonight: South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, says a delegation of African leaders will soon travel to Russia and Ukraine to present a peace plan. Proceedings in the rape case against Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have been adjourned until next week. And, the U.N. Children’s Fund says sub-Saharan Africa has some of the world’s highest rates of preterm births. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: UN agencies are appealing to international donors to scale up support and funding to provide education for Sudanese children fleeing conflict for safety to neighboring countries. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says that the number of people who fled from Sudan to Chad has doubled to 55,000 in the last week, and many are women and children. And, South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, says a delegation of African leaders will soon travel to Russia and Ukraine to present a peace plan. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders – known by its French acronym MSF – says access to critical HIV tests is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories and Becton Dickinson (BD) have decided to stop making equipment to run point-of-care CD4 tests. Doctors Without Borders, also known by the French acronym, MSF, is sounding the alarm this week as it treats an unusually high number of sexual assault victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province. Plus, the world’s biggest chocolate producers are enjoying record profits – but are failing to pass on the benefits to cocoa farmers, many of whom are suffering falling incomes and worsening poverty, according to a report from the charity Oxfam. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Loud explosions rattled Khartoum today as Sudan's capital degenerated further into anarchy with hospitals, banks, shops and wheat silos ransacked by looters. South Africa’s business sector is concerned about the economic consequences of rising tensions between Pretoria and Washington. And, Mali's interim military government has rejected a U.N. human rights office report on the alleged execution of at least 500 people by Malian soldiers and unidentified foreign fighters during an operation last year. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The U. S. ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety yesterday accused the government of President Cyril Ramaposha of providing weapons and ammunition to Russia for its war in Ukraine. U.S. officials say Sudan's warring parties signed a commitment late yesterday on guidelines for allowing humanitarian assistance but did not agree to a cease-fire. Plus, As Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi starts his campaign for a third term, his only competitor Ahmed Altantawy, has said two of his uncles and a group of friends and supporters have been detained in recent days. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: U.S. officials say Sudan's warring parties signed a commitment late yesterday on guidelines for allowing humanitarian assistance but did not agree to a cease-fire. A war of words is brewing between the U.S. and South Africa after the American ambassador said he would "bet his life" on U.S. intelligence that South African weapons were loaded onto a Russian vessel when it docked at a Cape Town naval base in December. And, voters in the conservative West African state of Mauritania head to the polls tomorrow for legislative and local elections that will serve as a key test ahead of presidential elections next year. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The UN World Food Program warns more than 2 more million people in Sudan could be pushed into hunger in the next few months because of the continued fighting between two military factions in the country. Financial institutions are bankrolling hundreds of new fossil fuel projects across Africa, at the same time as donors give the continent billions of dollars to switch to green energy. And, UN members attending an emergency session on Sudan at the UN Human Rights Council Thursday adopted a resolution condemning the human rights violations committed in relation to the 2021 military takeover of Sudan and the conflict that broke out on April 15, 2023. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: UN experts are calling for impartial and independent investigations into the atrocities committed against civilians in Sudan by two rival armed forces. High on the agenda at the summit of the BRICS countries in August is the group’s possible expansion. And, rights groups are urging Nigerian authorities to suspend the resettlement of people who fled Islamic militants in the country's northeast. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused East African forces deployed to fight rebels in his country of working with the enemy. Scores of journalists in Cameroon's troubled Northwest region have protested after rebels claimed responsibility for killing their colleague. And, South Africa could be without electricity for 16 hours a day this winter, as power infrastructure continues to erode and new green energy projects stall. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

Africa News Tonight: Health agencies warn that viral hepatitis could kill more people by 2040 than HIV, tuberculosis and malaria combined if it remains a neglected and underfunded disease. A member of Tunisia’s security services opened fire on Jewish pilgrims and fellow officers at the festival of Lag B’omer on the island of Djerba, killing four people and wounding several others before police fatally shot him. And separate outbreaks of Marburg virus disease have been reported in Equatorial Guinea in early February and late March in Tanzania, causing 12 deaths so far. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!