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Africa News Tonight: Video shows deaths in South Africa mine, France faces Africa tensions, terrorist groups recruit children in Africa - January 13, 2025
In South Africa, a video has surfaced showing more than a hundred dead bodies in a disused gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped for more than six months. France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies and fresh tensions were ignited with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron. One of Africa’s top security research organizations says terrorist groups on the continent are recruiting children as young as 11 and training them as extremist fighters.
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Africa News Tonight - January 10, 2025
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.
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Africa News Tonight: Carter eulogized in Washington, Nigerians remember fight against Guinea worm, Mozambique opposition leader returns - January 09, 2025
Speakers including his grandsons and President Joe Biden gave eulogies for former President Jimmy Carter today at his state funeral in Washington D.C. The people of Ebonyi state in southeast Nigeria are expressing gratitude to the late President, who led efforts to eradicate Guinea worm in their area. Thousands of people turned out today to meet Mozambique's main opposition leader Venancio Mondlane after he returned home from more than two months in exile as he asserts that he won the October presidential election.
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Africa News Tonight: Americans say farewell to Jimmy Carter, Chad pushes for French withdrawal, Turkey advances mediation effort in Sudan - January 08, 2025
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s body is lying in state in the Capitol in Washington, and people began lining up at 4 a.m. today despite cold, windy conditions. Chad's government has reiterated its order for French troops to completely withdraw from the country before the end of this month, after French President Emmanuel Macron said African countries are ungrateful for France's role in fighting militant insurgencies. The United States says it has determined Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Force is committing genocide in the country's war, as Turkey steps up its efforts to mediate in a conflict that has regional influences.
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Africa News Tonight: Fears grow about freed prisoners in Syria, nations seek new defense strategy, Seychelles sees great-power competition - January 07, 2025
Fears are growing in the Maghreb countries about Syria’s release of prisoners, because some of those freed might be militants from the region who will want to return home. Ivory Coast joins a growing list of countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, and Senegal, that have severed military ties with France, their former colonial ruler. The small island nation of the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa has become the unlikely setting of a great-power rivalry.
Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine 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.