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Daybreak Africa: UN Agency Decries Rising Sexual Violence Against Women in the DRC
On Daybreak Africa: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has called for urgent scale-up of interventions and funding to respond to rising sexual violence against children and women in the DRC’s North Kivu Province. Plus, Zambia launches a DNA lab to investigate sexual offenses. Rights groups say Sudan's warring sides show a reckless disregard for civilians in Western Darfur, and Malawi Uses Force to Relocate Refugees. African countries work to reduce road accident deaths as the world marks Road Safety Week. For this and more, stay tuned to Daybreak Africa!
Africa News Tonight: More Than a Million People Displaced by Recent Fighting in Sudan, Including About 250,000 Refugees - UNHCR & More
Africa News Tonight: The U.N. refugee agency, or UNHCR, said today that more than a million people have been displaced by recent fighting in Sudan, including about 250,000 refugees. Nigerian police rescued two abducted staff of a United States consulate early today. And, the governments of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, along with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, agreed to implement a plan to voluntarily repatriate refugees to their countries of origin. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!
Sonny Side of Sports: VOA Talks BAL Playoffs with Cape Town Tiger’s Prinsloo and More
On Friday’s show: Guest host Muqbil Yabarow tips off the show with coverage of the 2023 Basketball Africa League playoffs - and is joined by Pieter Prinsloo of South Africa’s Cape Town Tigers. Yabarow also updates on the Western Conference finals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) where the Denver Nuggets have a 2-0 lead against the Los Angeles Lakers. This and more on today's Sonny Side of Sports!
Africa News Tonight: Zimbabwe Releases More Than 4,000 Prison Inmates Ahead of General Elections & More
Africa News Tonight: Authorities in Zimbabwe today started releasing 4,270 prison inmates who were granted amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier this month ahead of general elections. Officials in Cameroon have shut down markets in an attempt to stop a wave of cholera infections spreading through all 10 regions of the central African state. And, Amnesty International and Kenya’s National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission have released a joint report saying the Kakuma refugee camp is not safe for nearly one thousand members of the LGBTQ community. For this and more, stay tuned to Africa News Tonight!
A Conversation with Anne Applebaum on Ukraine
On this special edition of Press Conference USA, senior VOA editor in VOA’s Ukrainian Service, Tatiana Vorozhko, talks with historian and writer, Anne Applebaum, about her recent trip to Kyiv, eliciting her observations about Ukraine’s leaders and civil society and how Ukraine has defied expectations with its resilience and resistance to Russia’s unlawful onslaught on that sovereign nation.
Turkey Election Results
No candidate received 50 percent of the vote in Turkey’s landmark presidential elections on May 14, so there will be a runoff on May 28. However, incumbent Recep Tayyib Erdogan fared much better than expected against his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, and Erdogan’s AK party alliance won a majority of seats in parliament. Turkish analysts Merve Tahiroglu and Mustafa Akyol talk with host Carol Castiel about why this occurred and suggest that Erdogan’s use of “identity politics” trumped his perceived mismanagement of the economy and the February earthquakes.
