Africa 54 -September 16, 2021|ECOWAS' Summit on Guinea, Civilians Dead in Nigeria, & Tigray Conflict . Top Stories: Ethiopians displaced by fighting between federal troops and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Amhara region received aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society. The Nigerian air force said on Thursday it may have killed and injured civilians while pursuing suspected Islamist insurgents in the northeast state of Yobe, in an incident that residents said left at least six people dead. West African leaders are gathering in Accra on Thursday to determine how the region's main political and economic bloc can steer Guinea back towards constitutional rule following a coup that ousted President Alpha Conde last week. Rwandan conservationist Olivier Nsengimana is on a mission to save the iconic grey crowned crane bird from extinction and is looking after hundreds at a sanctuary in Kigali. Clara Frenk has more. Police in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region say they arrested a man at an airport as he tried to smuggle 200 lizards to Egypt. Video footage from Somaliland police shows a suitcase with plastic containers inside, allegedly used to smuggle the lizards. It was not immediately clear why the suspect was illegally exporting the reptiles, the police and wildlife authorities in the region. Germany joined France on Wednesday in expressing concern about an agreement between Mali's military rulers and a Russian security company that would bring Russian mercenaries into the African country.Diplomatic and security sources have told Reuters that mercenaries hired by the Wagner Group would train the Malian military and provide protection for senior officials. Thursday September 16 is International Identity Day. It's marked as tribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.9 which calls for identity for all individuals by 2030. ID4Africa is an NGO that aims to help develop robust ecosystems in the service of development and humanitarian action. Iceland is now the home of the world's largest direct air capture and storage plant of carbon dioxide. The plant aims to remove 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide - one of the main contributors to global warming - from the air each year. Three British Afghan women are on a hunger strike near the British Parliament to protest the treatment of women in Afghanistan by the Taliban.