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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 United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has held separate telephone calls with Sudan’s rival generals this week to try to de-escalate the conflict in the country. The mining town of Rubaya, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has fallen into the hands of the M23 rebels, raising fears the militants will use the profits from the mines to fund their war against

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.

With South Africa’s general election just two weeks away, some polls suggest the governing African National Congress could get less than 50 percent of the vote for the first time in 30 years. Human rights activists in Nigeria are criticizing a new bid put forward by Nigerian lawmakers to punish drug trafficking with the death penalty. Human Rights Watch says an armed group allege

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center reports conflicts and violence have pushed the number of internally displaced people to a record-breaking high of 75.9 million people, with nearly half of all IDP’s living in sub-Saharan Africa. Cameroon’s military has moved more than 300 civilians rescued from Boko Haram terrorist captivity to a northern Cameroon military post. Zambi

With Chad recently confirming Mahamat Déby as civilian president after a long-delayed election, Western powers are watching to see what role, if any, they will play in countering terror threats in the Sahel region. The Kenyan medical workers strike is partially over, but salary issues for interns still are not resolved, nurses have just given a strike notice, and clinical official

Chad’s transitional ruler General Mahamat Idriss Deby was declared the winner of Monday’s election, and the government ordered the immediate deployment of troops to maintain peace, especially in the capital, N'djamena. Aid organization World Neighbors helps people to build businesses in Burkina Faso and Mali, despite militant attacks and mercenary groups operating in the Sahel.

In eastern Libya, where General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army, is backed by the Russian military, some regional security analysts estimate the Russian presence ranges from 1,000 to 1,500 individuals. The war between Russia and Ukraine is in its 2nd year, and many African students who had to leave for safety find themselves back in their home

Kenya's health ministry has announced the government has reached a deal with striking doctors, after a walk-out that lasted 56 days. Two suspected poachers were recently shot to death by Namibian law enforcement officials who say the men had opened fire on police while being pursued for allegedly illegally hunting in the Etosha National Park. In Tanzania, Medical Teams Internationa

The United States and other countries are pushing ahead with diplomatic efforts to establish a cease-fire between Israel and the militant Hamas group, as Israel threatens an assault on the Gaza city of Rafah. Hundreds of political parties and independent candidates have registered for South Africa’s election on May 29, as the ruling African National Congress faces the prospect of