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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: Uganda and Russia agree to continue trade and nuclear energy agreements amid the recent Africa tour by Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov who was tasked of strengthening relations between the Kremlin and the continent in the backdrop of the Ukraine war; Tunisian President Kais Saied and his supporters are celebrating the adoption of controversial new constitution who was voted into power in a lowly participated referendum where the results are being contested by opposition.

Tobi Amusan became the first Nigerian to win gold at the world athletics championships after racing to a world record time of 12.06s. Amusan erased the old record of 12.20s set by America's Kendra Harrison.  Abiola Onakoya is an athletics coach, who discovered Tobi Amusan as a secondary school student in Nigeria, and he spoke to reporter Mike Mbonye about the new world record set by the 25-year-old at the world athletics championships held in Eugene, Oregon.  

Health Chat is a live call-in program that addresses health issues of interest to Africa. The show puts listeners directly in touch with guest medical professionals. It includes a weekly feature spot, news and comments from listeners. The program is hosted by veteran health reporter Linord Moudou.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: French President Emmanuel Macron met with Cameroonian President Paul Biya during his Africa nations tour to discuss security, economic and food challenges during which Macron also addressed Russia’s presence in Africa with the mandate of strengthening ties between the continent and the Kremlin; World Health Organization officials are urging all who have been exposed to and are at risk of contracting Monkeypox to take preventative measures by receiving the vaccine.