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On Daybreak Africa: South African authorities retrieved six bodies of illegal miners in the past 24 hours from disused mine shaft police said as rescue operations continue for hundreds believed to still be trapped underground. Plus, Ghanaians vote Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections. The new UN humanitarian aid chief appeals for more funding. Big polluters and island states clash in the top UN court case on climate change. Indigenous Kenyan men campaign against female genital mutilation. Africa’s women-led startups struggle to find investors. US Senate considers president-elect Trump’s Cabinet selections. For these and more, tune in 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.

The nearly 18.8 million Ghanaians registered to vote will be able to take part Saturday in the country's ninth general election since multiparty politics was reintroduced in the early 1990s. Road transportation has failed to fully resume between Cameroon and the landlocked Central African Republic after a top-level crisis meeting this week to reopen borders Cameroon sealed after escalating violence in C.A.R. Morocco's foreign minister said his country plans to bring Central Sahel countries like Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali "out of isolation" with a joint development and port access package known as The Atlantic Initiative.