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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: Kenyan political analysts say a recent court ruling ordering Rigathi Gachagua, presidential candidate William Ruto’s running mate, to forfeit almost $1.7 million US Dollars in a corruption probe highlights the endemic corruption in the East African nation; Global health agencies say a licensing agreement has been reached which allows the generic production of the first and only long-acting injectable HIV-prevention drug.

VOA's Sonny Young brings you the latest sports news and trends as well as questions and comments from sports fans around Africa and the world.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: Kenya calls on Facebook to do more to rid the online platform of hate speech ahead of the August 9 elections. This followed revelations by NGO Global Witness that the social media site had approved advertisements promoting ethnic violence; Somali officials welcome a plan to create a buffer zone along the border inside the Horn of Africa nation to fight militant rebel group al-Shabab.

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider or LHC, in Geneva, is the world’s largest atom smasher. Suyog Shrestha, a professor of physics at Maryland’s Washington College and a physicist and research associate at the LHC, talks about this scientific complex with host Rick Pantaleo on the Science Edition of Press Conference USA.