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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: West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS Sunday announced the lifting of economic sanctions on Mali’s military government which has been welcomed by citizens of the West African nation who report struggling under the restrictions and the global rise in fuel and food costs; UNICEF officials say humanitarian aid has resumed into previously inaccessible areas in northern Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region which officials’ credit to the Horn of Africa nations humanitarian truce with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

On Monday's show, "Iron Mike" Mbonye catches up with Nigerian 100m sprint champion Favour Ashe (L), who will compete at next week's world championships in the USA. Also on the program, we'll hear from Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur, who is through to the women's singles quarterfinals at the prestigious Wimbledon tournament. Jabeur is trying to become the first African player to win a Grand Slam singles title. And George McNeilly reports on American J.T. Poston winning the trophy at the John Deere Classic golf tournament in Silvis, Illinois.

Coming up on Africa News Tonight: Sudan’s military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says the army will withdraw from political talks to pave way for revolutionary groups to form a government of technocrats to lead the transitional period; Police officials in Nigeria’s southwest Ondo state say they are investigating two church leaders who allegedly incarcerated scores of people, including children, in a church basement for up to six months.