Africa 54 - October 21, 2021| Police Brutality in Nigeria, Protests in S.Sudan, & Refugees in Kenya 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: Activists in Nigeria gathered this week to demonstrate the one-year anniversary of massive street rallies last year against police brutality. Protesters called for the military to overthrow Sudan's civilian leaders on Tuesday, amid what Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has called the "worst and most dangerous" crisis of a two-year transition from autocracy. Rwandan prosecutors said on Wednesday they would appeal against a 25-year jail sentence handed to Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide. Kenya told the United Nations in April, it will shut by June 2022 two camps holding over 410,000 refugees who fled from wars in the East and Horn of Africa, adding it planned to repatriate some and give others residency. Suspected Islamist militants killed 16 people and burned down houses late on Wednesday in a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a witness, and a civil society leader said. An army spokesman in the area said early on Thursday that a combat patrol unit had clashed with the rebels, but gave no further details. Mumbere Meleki Mulla, the coordinator of a local human rights network, confirmed the death toll and blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in the region. The ADF has operated in the dense forests near the Ugandan border for more than three decades and began killing civilians in large numbers in 2014. In late 2019 Congo's army launched a large-scale operation against them, sparking a violent backlash. A French woman of African origin is leading a campaign to encourage more members of France’s African diaspora to register as bone marrow donors to potentially save lives. Antony Blinken is making a major push for democracy on his first journey to South America as U.S. secretary of state, visiting two stable democracies, Ecuador and Colombia, at a time of rising violence, authoritarianism, and populism in the region. China is the center of manufacturing for the world. So, when COVID-19 hit, manufacturing was disrupted. Producing delays gave way to shipping delays. Now it’s difficult -- and sometimes impossible -- to get certain items. In Belarus just over the border from Ukraine, many children have been living with chronic radiation sickness since the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power Plant exploded in 1986. They have returned to school after being unable to escape contamination for yet another summer due to pandemic border restrictions. Residents of Halabja, a Kurdish city where thousands died in 1988 from a chemical weapons attack launched by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, are mourning the death of Colin Powell – the former American general and secretary of state. Gas attack survivors credit Powell with being instrumental in ousting the Iraqi regime and recall his 2003 visit to the city