Africa 54 - June 23, VOA Africa Africa 54, your daily news and feature magazine-style program, from the Voice of America. Managing editor Vincent Makori and a team of correspondents zero in on the big stories making news on the continent and around the world with context and analysis. Top Stories: The United Nations is calling Burkina Faso's 1.2 million Internally Displaced People the world's fastest growing humanitarian crisis, but the government is refusing to recognize thousands of IDP'S, who get no support. And media access has been closed to over one million IDP's living in official camps. Henry Wilkins follows a day in the life of one such IDP in this report from Ouagadougou. Sudan is asking the United Nations Security Council to meet and discuss a dispute over a giant dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile. Sudan's Foreign Minister Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi is calling on the Security Council to hold a session as soon as possible to discuss the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and "its impact on the safety and security of millions of people", according to a government statement. In a letter to the council head, she called on him to urge Ethiopia to stop the "unilateral" filling of the dam "which exacerbates the dispute and poses a threat to regional and international peace and security." .... Dozens of militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have laid down their weapons and surrendered. They are the first to do so since President Felix Tshisekedi announced martial law to tackle worsening security in two eastern provinces. Around 140 men from various local armed groups sang and clapped as they handed themselves in to authorities Monday during a ceremony in Congo's North Kivu province. Some 70 weather-beaten weapons, mostly rifles, were also turned in. Congo's mineral-rich east has been shuddered to a halt with conflict since the official end to the country's second civil war in 2003. .... The World Health Organization says it is setting up a "tech transfer hub" in South Africa so that companies from poor and middle-income countries can access the technology to manufacture the most advanced COVID-19 vaccines. Okwi Okoha has more. When COVID-19 hit, the world was not ready. The pandemic showed us major gaps in our preparation and ability to respond to the virus. Health experts say we will have another one. VOA's Carol Pearson reports that it doesn't have to be as bad as COVID-19. Sameul Dhol Ayuen fled South Sudan as a teenager. Now, he is helping his host country, Uganda, to fight rising cases of COVID-19 at a hospital in Kampala. David Doyle has more. The U.S. will not reach President Joe Biden's goal of partially or fully vaccinating 70 percent of adults by the July 4th Independence Day holiday, according to the White House. U.S. officials are focusing vaccination education efforts on Americans who remain skeptical about the vaccine. VOA's Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more. In northern Cameroon, councils of traditional rulers were customarily all men but in the last two years have opened to women. These pioneer female deputy chiefs are battling early marriage in a region with Cameroon’s highest rate of child marriage. Moki Edwin Kindzeka narrates this report by Anne Nzouankeu in Mokolo, Cameroon. Africa is projected to recover in 2021 from its worst economic recession caused by the global pandemic COVID–19, according to a report by the Africa development bank released earlier this year. Most economies are reopening with people on the continent getting vaccinated, and now American companies are discussing Africa as a business destination. For more insight, Africa 54's tech correspondent Paul Ndiho, via Skype, spoke with Scott Eisner, president of the U.S.-Africa Business Center, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce based in Washington, D.C.