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On today's Daybreak Africa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud meet in Addis to hash out their differences, the DPP party in Malawi accuses the ruling party of an alleged shooting to intimidate women, and Mozambique's opposition leaders calls for a national strike. All this and more on 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.

In South Africa, a video has surfaced showing more than a hundred dead bodies in a disused gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped for more than six months. France starts 2025 with a further drawdown of its military presence in its former African colonies and fresh tensions were ignited with controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron. One of Africa’s top security research organizations says terrorist groups on the continent are recruiting children as young as 11 and training them as extremist fighters.