Top Stories: We begin in Nigeria, where anguished parents are suffering on Tuesday, after more than one-hundred school children were kidnapped Monday at a boarding school. Police and members of the military are pursuing the perpetrators. Worried by the disturbing revelation that one-out-of-seven Nigerians engage in drug abuse, some youth organizations in the country are advocating for more community-based knowledge-driven efforts to reverse the trend. The government of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, says life in the country is returning to normal following days of deadly protests. Government spokesperson Sabelo Dlamini says the protests cost an estimated 3 billion in eSwatini currency to the economy and an estimated five-thousand jobs were lost due to the destruction of many businesses. Conservationists in Zimbabwe are trying to rally opposition to a Chinese coal mining project operating in the district with the country's biggest national park. Critics say locals and wildlife will be affected and are urging authorities to move away from coal production toward renewable energies. The co-founder of footwear start-up Enda Sportswear says it is seeing a boost in sales from people stuck at home during the pandemic and says manufacturing could also help Kenya recover from the economic impact of COVID-19. Between eight-hundred and 15-hundred businesses worldwide are feeling the effects of a ransomware attack centered on U.S. information technology firm Kaseya, according to its chief executive. Fred Voccola, the Florida-based company's CEO, said in an interview that it was hard to estimate the precise impact of Friday's attack because those hit were mainly customers of Kaseya's customers. Kaseya provides software tools to information technology outsourcing shops: companies that typically handle back-office work for companies too small or modestly resourced to have their own technology departments. As the dangerous Delta Variant of COVID-19 sweeps across the world, a new study by the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that pregnant women are getting vaccinated against the coronavirus at a lower rate than their non-pregnant peers. Experts say most pregnant women infected with COVID-19 will be asymptomatic or have a mild disease, but their health may deteriorate rapidly, affecting the fetus. They say a lack of outreach and engagement with pregnant women, as well as delayed or even inaccurate information, is causing some distrust in the vaccine. Pandemic economic pressure and more state limits on abortion are driving an increasing number of women, especially the poor, to Washington, D.C. to terminate their pregnancy. The Paris-based, International music market and festival known as MIDEM [pronounced “me-dem” or “mi (as in do – re -mi – dem”] launched its first ever DIGITAL event dedicated 100 percent to Africa. It took place from June 28th – July 1st as a pan-African event with Kenya as its Country of Honor