Africa 54 - September 27, 2021| Protests in Tunisia, Theoneste Bagosora Died in Mali, & more. VOA Africa147 vuesDiffusée en direct le 27 sept. 2021 You are watching Africa 54, your daily news and feature magazine-style program, from the Voice of America. Host Esther Githui-Ewart 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: Mali could push back presidential and legislative elections from late February to avoid their validity being contested, its prime minister handling a post-coup transition said. Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, died in a hospital in Mali on Saturday. Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital, Tunis, Sunday to protest President Kais Saied’s recent decrees bolstering the already near-total power he granted himself two months ago. Moviegoers returned to plush red seats in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Wednesday for the country's first public cinema screening since before a civil war broke out in 1991. Professional soccer player Francis Deng Kowal imagines that life without soccer would be "very harsh", and that's why he founded a soccer academy in Egypt with the hope of inspiring young African refugees through the sport. For Serge Makolo, roller skating is a way to forget his troubles such as the volcanic eruption that destroyed his home. And he's hopes it might one day earn him a medal on this highest global stage. Widakuswara U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday hosted the leaders of India, Japan and Australia for a meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or the Quad, part of his foreign policy push to focus on the Indo-Pacific region and counter a rising China. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is defending President Joe Biden's foreign policy record, as the administration faces pressure over its handling of Haitian migrants on the U.S. border, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and a nuclear submarine deal with Australia that angered France. A time of intensity. That's what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is calling this coming week in Congress as lawmakers are expected to vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, but also consider the Democrat-backed $3.5 trillion sweeping social spending package, core to the Biden administration agenda. The Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Spanish Canary Islands continues to spew lava and debris, one week after it erupted and forced thousands of people to flee their homes. A local airport has reopened, but planes remain grounded as ash clogs runways and lava fills the skies