Africa News Tonight: FBI broadens probe in New Orleans attack, African nations struggle with debt, Carter effort led to landmark peace deal

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation says authorities are carrying out searches in New Orleans and areas outside the southern U.S. state of Louisiana as part of their investigation into a deadly New Year’s Day attack in the city’s popular French Quarter. Entering 2025, at least 20 African countries are bankrupt or at high risk of defaulting on debt repayments, according to global financial institutions. The Camp David Accords, signed by the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.