Africa 54 - Nigeria Kidnapped Girls Rescued, US Ships Vaccines to Ghana, Kenya, Poet Poetra Asanetwa VOA Africa234 On this edition of Africa 54: Five girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria are rescued, according to police in Zamfara State; The United States ships more than two million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Kenya and Ghana through the COVAX global distribution program; & To wind up the week, we go to Accra, Ghana, where spoken word artist Poetra Asanetwa talks to VOA’s Heather Maxwell about her craft and performs a short poem. Top Stories: Five girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, police in Zamfara State said on Thursday, although other sources gave different details in the aftermath of the mass abduction. Wednesday's attack on a secondary school in the village of Kaya was the latest in a spree of raids on schools across the northwest by armed gangs seeking ransoms. Amid the latest wave of COVID-19 infections, less than 1 percent of people in Africa's most populated country, Nigeria, have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Nigerian authorities are scrambling for more vaccines but say misinformation and myths are discouraging uptake. Timothy Obiezu looks at efforts to dispel the rumors in this report from the capital, Abuja. The United States on Thursday shipped more than 2 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to Kenya and Ghana Thursday through the COVAX global distribution program, a White House official said. The United States sent 880,320 doses to Kenya, bringing the total number of doses sent to the African country to just over 1.76 million, the official said. It sent 1,229,620 doses to Ghana, the first shipment to that country. Thursday's shipments were the latest installments in a U.S. vaccine diplomacy push that has sent vaccines to dozens of countries. The doses are being delivered through COVAX, jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). South Africa is deploying a train to drive its lagging vaccination campaign forward and inoculate those living in rural communities. Fighting broke out in Tripoli early on Friday between rival armed forces, according to witnesses. These are the heaviest clashes in the Libyan capital since the conflict between eastern and western factions paused a year ago