Africa News Tonight: Hope for Sudan cease-fire talks, African push for Security Council role, fears grow for Senegal press freedom - August 14, 2024

Africa News Tonight - VOA Africa

As talks on Sudan’s 16-month-old civil war and the country’s humanitarian crisis begin in Geneva, a group of Sudanese youth meeting in Nairobi is expressing support and hope. Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio used the United Nations Security Council presidency to push for more seats for African nations, saying Africa cannot wait any longer to get a bigger voice on the U.N.’s most powerful body. Since Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected Senegal's president and Ousmane Sonko became prime minister, the Senegalese Council of Press Distributors and Publishers says freedom of the press has come under threat.