AFRICA–AMERICAS

AFRICA–AMERICAS — The daily flagship news from the Americas that matters to Africa. The last edition of the day. Live from New York at 17:00 GMT, forty minutes, every evening, closing GA's tour of the sun. AFRICA–AMERICAS tracks the political, diplomatic and economic decisions taken in Washington, Ottawa, Mexico City, Brasília and at the United Nations in New York that reach African ground — votes and mandates, sanctions and appointments, trade, finance, technology, migration — and brings the stories of Africa's players across the Americas, from the UN floor to the White House, from Wall Street to the diaspora. Produced in the Americas, it is an African programme: every story is told for the African decision-maker, politics as much as economics, and Latin America and the Caribbean weigh as much as the United States.

AFRICA–AMERICAS is produced from New York with dedicated correspondents in Washington, Silicon Valley, Brasília, Toronto and Mexico City. The programme's two parts — The American Machine and Africa in the Americas — treat the axis as a single editorial system, with the African decision-maker as the client the American machine is, in the end, answering to.

Each edition runs forty minutes in two parts: four or five main stories in each, plus three or four in brief. The pace is fast, the register live, the formats varied — packages, correspondents down the line, graphic and studio explainers, expert interviews and a newsbelt. Each story goes to the edition where the news is being made. A eurobond priced in New York, listed in London and spent in the issuing country is one file but three stories, told in three editions, each from the place where that part of it happens.

Segments — forty minutes, live from New York, 17:00 GMT

Part one — The American Machine. What the Americas decided today that reaches African ground.

The Decision (≈ 8 min) — The lead. The one political, diplomatic or economic decision of the day — a vote, a sanction, a tariff, an appointment, a ruling — with its consequence for Africa stated out loud. Package, then the correspondent who covered it, down the line.

UN Floor (≈ 5 min) — Live from United Nations headquarters: mandates, peace operations, Security Council votes on African files, the diplomacy of African delegations in New York. The segment that makes AFRICA–AMERICAS the channel's UN edition.

Washington Brief (≈ 5 min) — The White House, Congress, the State Department, the Bretton Woods institutions: what moved today in US policy, aid, trade and finance towards Africa. Package or graphic explainer, with the Washington correspondent.

Part two — Africa in the Americas. Who from Africa is acting across the Americas, and with what effect.

Africa's Players (≈ 7 min) — African states, institutions, companies and figures at work in the Americas: a minister negotiating in Washington, a troop contributor in Haiti, a borrower on Wall Street, a litigant in arbitration, a producer in Toronto. Package or studio interview with the player or an expert who knows the file.

South–South (≈ 5 min) — The Latin American and Caribbean axis, in every edition: Brasília, Mexico City, Bogotá, CARICOM — diplomacy, trade, energy, mining, food security, reparations diplomacy. The segment that keeps the programme from being a US edition with two neighbours.

In Brief (≈ 4 min) — The newsbelt: three or four secondary stories from across the Americas, out of vision, fast.