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Russia’s aggression on Ukraine has been exposing Africa to supply chain destabilizations, financial instability and heightened food insecurity, thus gravely hurting millions of Africans and inflicting an increased potential for instability on some African states. Even so, and from the invasion onward, Russia...
On Africa News Tonight: Pope Francis Wednesday presided over an open-air mass which witnessed the attendance of over a million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa. The pontiff urged leaders in the Central African nation to seek peace in the war with M23 rebels. Plus, authorities in...
The U.S. should work for the benefit of Africans and not compete with them, says a U.S. expert while talking about the US-Africa Summit in Washington on December 13-15. The event was attended by 49 African leaders. "Washington must look at Africa through the lenses of Africans...
Joseph Sany, vice president of the Africa Center at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) and David Shinn, former US Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso preview the US-Africa Leaders Summit with host Carol Castiel. Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the confab aims to bring together high-level officials and business leaders from both continents to strengthen US – Africa trade and investment ties and foster cooperation on shared global priorities such as climate change, food security, pandemic prevention and democracy...
Each morning, Daybreak Africa looks at the latest developments on the continent, starting with headline news and providing in-depth interviews, reports from VOA correspondents, sports news as well as listener comments...
Coming up on Africa News Tonight: Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region report a fresh airstrike on Mekelle that hit a hospital and a center for displaced people, however the Horn of Africa nations federal government said fighting has spread to the West of Tigray, near the border with Sudan...
While the United States seeks to outcompete China in Africa, the Asian superpower just made it more difficult by announcing that it would cancel some interest-free loans to 17 African countries. Early this month, the US sent delegations across Africa. The most high-powered one was led by U.S. Secretary...
With Russia and China looming in the background, America’s top diplomat pitched a “new chapter” in U.S.-African relations on Monday, promising robust trade and calling for democracy despite political upheaval in much of the continent. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken insisted his five-day swing through...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will launch a three-country tour of Africa on Sunday in South Africa. He is expected to deliver a major speech laying out the Biden administration's strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa. Experts tell VOA that human rights concerns will likely be high on the agenda. VOA's Senior...
Last week, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, paid a visit to Africa. As the west attempts to isolate Russia in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine in February, African countries are not equally enthusiastic about western sanctions against Moscow. French President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to...