Africa 54 - October 15, 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 U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that an additional 17 million coronavirus vaccines will be donated to the African Union, as he met with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta. The World Health Organization's endorsement of the world’s first malaria vaccine marks a major advance against the mosquito-borne illness, which kills some 265,000 children in Africa annually The killing of a five-year-old girl by a military police officer has inflamed tensions in Cameroon's English-speaking South West Region, where secessionists have been battling government troops for nearly five years. The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) returns to Burkina Faso Saturday after being canceled last year due to the pandemic. One Burkinabe director, who has made a film documenting a nursery for the infants of sex workers, talks about the importance of telling African stories through cinema. Kenya police say they have arrested the husband of Agnes Tirop, the key suspect in the murder of the 25-year-old two-time World Championships medalist. Emmanuel Rotich, is suspected to have stabbed Tirop multiple times before fleeing their home. He was arrested in Changamwe, Mombasa Thursday night after being trailed for two days. Meanwhile scores of Kenyans gathered outside the home of the late Tirop on Wednesday to mourn her tragic demise. The family of former South African President Nelson Mandela is putting roughly 100 of his belongings up for auction to help fund a memorial garden in his honor, including some of his iconic shirts. The effects of climate change are expected to push more than 200 million people from their homes by 2050, according to the World Bank. The impacts are already being felt in the southern U.S. state of Louisiana, where four major weather disasters struck in a nine month period. The world’s most famous “starship captain” takes the trek of a lifetime. Plus, new software makes possible virtual trips through the universe, and a mining company in Greenland offers a potentially planet-saving alternative to aluminum. Big music news from Northern Ghana! Dagbon has a new chief of the talking drum. Alidu Mohammed speaks with Heather Maxwell to share his news and music from Tamale