You are watching Africa 54, your daily news and feature magazine-style program, from the Voice of America. Host Esther Githui-Ewart and a team of correspondents zero in on the big stories making news on the continent and around the world with context and analysis.
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Mali remains without a blueprint forward on Tuesday after three days of talks between military coup leaders and west African mediators yielded no decision on the make-up of a transitional government.
The leader of the west Africa’s regional bloc, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says they were permitted to speak with deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who has been held by the junta since he resigned last week. Jonathan says Keita told him he was not forced from office and does not want to return to office but wants a speedy return to a democratically elected government. Jonathan also says the Economic Community of West African states delegation and the junta, known as national committee for the salvation of the people, agreed on a number of issues and they asked the military officers to look over some of the issues they did not agree on.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Zimbabwe’s economy was in shambles and many citizens were already struggling to survive. As food insecurity has grown, charities in the capital have opened relief kitchens to provide free meals to thousands, most of them informal traders unable to earn income because of coronavirus restrictions.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Sudan on Tuesday as the White House pushes for Arab nations to normalize ties with Israel. Pompeo’s schedule includes meetings with Sudanese prime minister Abdalla Hamdok and sovereign council chair general Abdel Fattah el-Burhan. In addition to Sudan-Israel relations, the state department says Pompeo will also discuss “continued U.S. support for the civilian-led transitional government” in Sudan.
Republicans opened their four-day convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday, and unanimously nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for a second term.
A Somali American has been named Minnesota’s teacher of the year for 2020. Qorsho Hassan is the first Somali-American to receive the honor, which was announced earlier this month by a group called education Minnesota.
A54 Health: The World Health Organization’s African region on Tuesday is expected to be officially certified free of the wild poliovirus. This certification comes four years after Nigeria – the last polio-endemic country in Africa – recorded its final case of wild polio. The certification marks a major step toward global eradication of the virus. In an interview with Africa 54 health correspondent Linord Moudou, Michel Zaffran, the WHO director for polio eradication, discusses efforts and strategies that led to this achievement in Africa and what is being done to help Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two-remaining polio-endemic countries, achieve the same milestone.
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