Africa 54 - October 19, 2021 | An Airstrike in Tigray, Migrants Rescue off Libya, & more You are watching Africa 54, your daily news and feature magazine-style program, from the Voice of America. Managing editor Vincent Makori 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: Three children were killed and one person was wounded in an air strike on the capital of the Tigray region in Ethiopia on Monday, the United Nations cited local health workers as saying.The health workers said the casualties were caused in the strike on the outskirts of Mekelle, Jens Laerke, spokesperson of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. Three-year-old Saba died from malnutrition in Ethiopia's Amhara last month. Conflict in neighboring Amhara has spread to the region, forcing thousands to flee their homes - carrying with them stories of hunger and brutality. A boat carrying 80 African migrants was rescued after it malfunctioned off the coast of the Libyan city of Garabulli on Monday (October 18), a coast guard official said. The migrants, including women and children, were from Mali, Gambia, Sudan, Nigeria, and other nationalities. A floundering economy, in-party fighting and ceaseless corruption allegations are plaguing South Africa's ruling African National Congress. The upcoming local elections on November 1st will test whether loyalties to the party that brought an end to apartheid will prevail or shift in favor of a new political order. The death toll of Tuberculosis has increased globally for the first time in more than a decade, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the findings of the latest World Health Organization’s Global TB Report. Burundi on Monday ( rolled out its first COVID-19 vaccines, months after most African countries, the latest step in the East African nation's shift towards a more active approach to containing the pandemic. Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and top military officer, died on Monday at the age of 84 from complications due to COVID-19. His family wrote in a statement on Facebook he was fully vaccinated, and that they had “lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American. After Cyclone Idai hit in 2019, some Zimbabweans turned to activities like illegal gold panning to survive. Now Voluntary Service Overseas, an international development charity, is giving them a new option – bee keeping. The 12th Silicon Valley African Film Festival, which took place over an October weekend in San Jose, California, featured 116 films from 36 countries. More than half of those were directed by women. Collectively, these films are changing visions of Africa.