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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.

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.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: World leaders and environmental activists are gathered in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the COP27 climate summit, where United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres Monday announced a new fund focused on funding global warning systems warning communities about looming natural disasters. Ethiopian leaders and their rival Tigrayan forces Monday met in Kenya’s capital Nairobi to continue implementation talks about the African Union brokered peace deal signed last week in South Africa.

22-year-old Ghanaian football player Mohammed Kudus has been earning kudos ahead of his World Cup debut in Qatar. Kudus scored four goals for the Dutch club Ajax during the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Yaw Ofosu Larbi kicks off Monday's Sonny Side of Sports show with a profile of Kudus. Also on the program, the 1994 African Footballer of the Year Emmanuel Amunike, who says it's a mistake to label Africa's five World Cup-bound teams as underdogs in Qatar.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: U.N. agencies based in Malawi say resources to house refugees in the southern African nation are becoming scarce resulting from an influx of refugees escaping fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A Senegalese journalist Monday faced arrest after being accused of spreading false information that is harmful to public security, soon after publishing artists about rape charges that are being faced by opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.