Top Stories: We begin our broadcast in West Africa, where the parents of 121 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Kaduna state, held a prayer vigil at the school Tuesday, hoping for their children’s safe return. The attack in Burkina Faso last month that killed 160 civilians was in retaliation for the activity by pro-government civilian militias in the area, according to Human Rights Watch. The International Committee of the Red Cross says that more than one-third of Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province has been displaced amid an escalating Islamic State-linked insurgency. Residents there are living in extremely harsh conditions. Nearly fifty percent of the people living in Chad's Lake Province are displaced. Some of people there are from other parts of the West Sahel region, where armed attacks by Islamist militants and other groups continue unabated, despite interventions from United Nations peacekeepers and international armed forces. According to the UN Refugee Agency, half of Lake Province’s 450-thousand people are displaced. Ghanaian youth of the main opposition National Democratic Congress protested in the streets of Accra Tuesday demanding justice for all persons they say have been killed or brutalized by security forces. Ghana’s electoral commission declared President Nana Akufo-Addo winner of the 2020 elections with nearly 52 percent of the votes, while opposition leader and former President John Mahama received 47 percent of the votes. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Monday and stressed the need for all parties involved in the Tigray conflict to commit to an immediate, indefinite, negotiated ceasefire, according to State Department spokesperson Ned Price. Price said Tuesday that Secretary Blinken also condemned the destruction of bridges into Tigray and other impediments to access. Egypt and Sudan both say they have been informed by Addis Ababa of its plans to begin the second phase of filling the Great Renaissance Dam, built by East African nation upstream of the Nile. But Ethiopia has not officially confirmed this operation on the dam -- which has long been the subject of conflict with Egypt and Sudan who fear for their water is set to take place "in July and August." Egyptian Irrigation Minister Abdel Aty said in a statement, that the North African nation rejects this unilateral measure and denounced it as a violation of the law and international standards that regulate construction projects on shared basins of international rivers. The Sudanese foreign ministry is also denouncing Ethiopia’s plan as a flagrant violation of international law. Mobile clinics are now rolling through the streets of Ivory Coast after setting officials set an ambitious target of vaccinating one-million people against COVID-19 over the next ten days - more than doubling its total so far. Lucy Fielder has the details. The White House announced shipments of millions of the Moderna vaccine donations for Guatemala and Vietnam on Tuesday, after pledging to donate four million doses to Indonesia last week. Overall, the U.S. fell short of its target of sending 80 million doses to countries in need by the end of June. VOA White House correspondent Patsy Widakuswara reports on the challenges facing the U.S. effort to help vaccinate the world. Union Bank, one of Nigeria's leading commercial banks, recently announced the winners of its fourth edition of the Innovation Challenge, UnionX themed A New Discovery. The Belgian government says it will begin the process of returning thousands of artworks stolen from Democratic Republic of Congo during colonial rule -- but there’s a catch. Here again is David Doyle to explain