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Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, the African diaspora, business, arts and culture. Music and the popular sports segment, Sonny Side of Sports, round out the show.

Christmas 2021 was expected to be a big celebration in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. In contrast to last year’s lockdown and closure of the Church of the Nativity because of the pandemic, this year tourists and pilgrims were supposed to return and inject badly needed cash into the city. Then the COVID-19 omicron variant hit, dashing hopes and leaving plenty of “room at the inn.” Linda Gradstein and Ricki Rosen report for VOA from Bethlehem.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

At age10, Peter Mutabazi left an abusive home to fend for himself on the streets of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. A stranger’s kindness led to schooling and new opportunity abroad. Now he’s a foster dad in the United States of children who have had hard lives. He talks about his experiences in this self-narrated report produced by VOA Africa’s Betty Ayoub

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.

[In a year-end press briefing, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted renewed U.S. alliances abroad while also addressing foreign policy challenges like Russia's actions near Ukraine and Afghanistan's growing humanitarian crisis. VOA Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine has more.

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, the African diaspora, business, arts and culture.

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world.