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Critics say South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address glossed over the country’s many problems. UNICEF reports 300 days of conflict in Sudan have unleashed a wave of atrocities on children, with many suffering from hunger, violence and horrific abuse. Some Arab-American and Palestinian-Americans are urging others to express their disapproval with the Biden administration for supporting Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday about whether former President Donald Trump, who is likely to win the Republican nomination again, should be excluded from states’ ballots because of his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. For more, VOA’s Carol Van Dam spoke to Allan Lichtman, a historian and professor at American University in Washington, D.C.

As the world moves away from fossil fuels, mining companies have turned to Africa for its vast mineral resources. For more, VOA’s Darren Taylor filed this report.

A former Israeli foreign minister recently spoke against Egypt for opposing the Middle Eastern nation’s request to allow its army to conduct a military operation in the Philadelphi Corridor — a border zone that separates South Gaza from the North African nation. For more, VOA’s Mohammed Elshinnawi spoke to Ambassador Ayman Zain Eldin, the former director of the media department at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments in former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the state of Colorado barring him from the ballot. Mining experts say Africa’s vast mineral resources will put it at the center of the world’s move away from using fossil fuels in the near future. And it’s Nigeria against Ivory Coast in the AFCON championship!