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On Daybreak Africa: Kenyan President William Ruto welcomes a new UN Security Council resolution authorizing a foreign security mission to intervene in Haiti. The World Health Organization approves a second malaria vaccine. Defense ministers and security experts from Cameroon and Chad meet in the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, to map out ways of jointly combating growing security threats along their border. For this and more tune to Daybreak Africa!

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.

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.

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.

On October 10th, Liberians will vote in their fourth presidential election since the end of the civil war in 2003. The incumbent President George Weah is seeking a second term in office. He will face off against former Vice President Joseph Boakai, philanthropist and entrepreneur Alexander Cummings, and human rights attorney Taiwan Gongloe among other candidates. Fresh off her trip to cover the recently concluded UNGA, Evelyne Dan Epelle joins me to talk about some of the issues discussed in New York

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Hayde Adams and her guests take a look at the U.S. policy towards Africa. Last year’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit brought dozens of African leaders to Washington to strengthen ties and boost engagement with the continent. This episode explores the progress made since then and analyzes U.S. foreign policy in Africa. Guests include Rama Yade, French ambassador to UNESCO and senior director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center and Charles Ray, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe and chair of the Chair of the Africa Program, chair of the Foreign Policy Research Institute's Africa Program.