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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Weeks after heavy rains triggered major flooding in Senegal’s capital, Dakar — areas of stagnant waters remain — exposing a gap in funding that authorities had promised would avert such crises.
The U.S. announced $152 million in new aid dollars to the Sahel region of Africa to support the strategically important but fragile region.
A retired colonel is Mali’s new interim president. He is charged with presiding over a return to civilian rule following a military coup. Former Mali foreign minister Moctar Ouane was named to the prime minister’s post Sunday by new transitional President Bah N’daw. Ouane served as foreign minister from 2004 to 2011, after representing Mali as its envoy to the United Nations from 1995 to 2002. The installation of Ouane as prime minister could lead to the removal of sanctions imposed on Mali by ECOWAS. ECOWAS suspended all financial transactions between Mali and its 14 other member states and closed their shared borders after the coup.
One way to reframe the way the people, places and cultures on the African continent are viewed is through imagery. So, VOA dropped in on a Kenyan photographer during one of her shoots in Nairobi. She says the perfect picture is about tone, texture, color and context. And that’s why her focus is on African women.
With just 36 days to go before the U.S. presidential election, battle lines are being drawn over President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is calling on Republican Senators not to confirm her before the November third election to allow U.S. voters to have a say, a view key Republican leader dismiss.
The first presidential debate pitting President Donald Trump against former Democratic Vice president Joe Biden takes place Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio. This is the first of three debates in which the two will appear face to face. The election campaign is close, both nationally and in Ohio, a swing state, where voter’s opinions about the two candidates differ sharply from one household to the next.
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