VOA Africa

Dec 15 2024 250 ep. 21 mins 2
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VOA Africa reaches more than 25 million people on the web, social media, radio, and television. We deliver Africa-related content in English targeted to all 54 countries in Africa and the diaspora. Our programs engage audiences on a wide variety of topics including news, politics, science, technology, health, business, sports, music, and entertainment.

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Nightline Africa - December 15, 2024

Dec 15 2024 54 mins  
Join our host and correspondents from Washington and across Africa as they bring you in-depth interviews, news reports, analysis and features on this 60-minute news magazine show.

Music Time in Africa - December 15, 2024

Dec 15 2024 54 mins  
Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running English language program. Since 1965 this award-winning program has featured pan African music that spans all genres and generations. Host Heather Maxwell keeps you up to date on what’s happening in African music with interviews and cultural information.

Nightline Africa - December 14, 2024

Dec 14 2024 54 mins  
Join our host and correspondents from Washington and across Africa as they bring you in-depth interviews, news reports, analysis and features on this 60-minute news magazine show.

The deputy head of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema says he wants the party’s top job. - December 13, 2024

Dec 13 2024 4 mins  
Tundu Lissu, the deputy leader of the main opposition party in Tanzania, has announced his bid to run for the party’s leadership. The current leader, Freeman Mbowe, has held the position since 2003. Lissu says he wants to enact changes in how the party deals with the Tanzanian government and within the party’s ranks. Tanzania holds presidential elections next year. Lissu tells

South Sudan in Focus: South Sudan talks hits dead end - December 13, 2024

Dec 13 2024 29 mins  
This weekend marks South Sudan’s eleventh year of conflict that has devastated the population, sending millions to refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda, DRC, Sudan and Ethiopia. The archbishop of the Internal Province of Western Bahr El Ghazal state says power struggles are to blame for the ongoing conflict. Archbishop Moses Deng, is the South Sudan Council of Churches' peace envoy at

Sonny Side of Sports - December 13, 2024

Dec 13 2024 29 mins  
VOA's Sonny Young brings you the latest sports news, personalities and trends from around Africa and the world.

Africa News Tonight - December 13, 2024

Dec 13 2024 24 mins  
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.

African Beat - December 13, 2024

Dec 13 2024 54 mins  
African Beat showcases the latest and the greatest of contemporary African music and conversation. From Benga to Juju, Hip Life to Bongo Flava, Bubu to Soukous and more, host David Vandy has his finger on the pulse of the hottest African music and related issues today.

Daybreak Africa - December 13, 2024

Dec 12 2024 29 mins  
On today's Daybreak Africa, outraged Syrians call for execution of ousted president Bashar al-Assad, President Biden's top diplomat pushes for peace in Gaza and Syria, and the deputy head of Tanzania's opposition party is running for his party's top job. Tune for these stories and much more on Daybreak Africa.

South Sudan in Focus: UN Commission on Human rights in South Sudan calls for accountable and justice - December 12, 2024

Dec 12 2024 29 mins  
A delegation from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan engage stakeholders on advancing human rights in South Sudan; the commissioners of the eight counties in Eastern Equatoria State are instructed to collect taxes for paying civil servants’ salaries across the state; authorities in Western Equatoria State’s Yambio County developed a bylaw to address ge