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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.

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Africa News Tonight - Dozens of countries scrambled to arrange transportation to get their citizens out of Sudan amid concerns that fighting could escalate and cut off exits from the country. As the rush to get embassy personnel out of the Sudanese capital to safety continues, one analyst says the writing was on the wall that the leaders of the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force would turn on each other. And, Kenyan authorities have recovered at least 50 bodies of members of the Good News International Church, who are believed to have starved themselves to death. Police Monday rescued 29 members of the church in a forest near the coastal town of Malindi. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!

On Monday's show, we'll hear from Jose Neto, the Basketball Africa League's Coach of the Year for 2022. Coach Neto and his Petro de Luanda team tip off their 2023 BAL campaign on Thursday (April 27) when they play City Oilers of Uganda in Cairo, Egypt. The Voice of America will be broadcasting the games in Cairo on radio including Wednesday's opening Nile Conference encounter between Al Ahly of Egypt and Ferroviario da Beira of Mozambique. Sonny will also have lots more sports news so please tune in!

Africa News Tonight - As countries rush to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Khartoum, Sudanese nationals are fending for themselves amid power blackouts and loss of internet service. Nigerian authorities say they are trying to evacuate 5,000 Nigerians, especially students, who are stranded in Sudan due to fighting there. Plus, American entrepreneur Elon Musk is struggling to launch his satellite internet service, Starlink, in Africa, with only two of 54 countries so far signing up to it. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!