Africa 54 - November 1, 2021 1 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: Security forces shot dead three people during nationwide protests in Sudan on Saturday, a doctors committee said, as hundreds of thousands of people demanded the restoration of a civilian-led government after a military coup. Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets on Saturday demanding that General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who toppled Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok's cabinet last Monday relinquish power and pave way for a civilian-led government. Tigrayan forces claim to have seized the strategic town of Dessie in Ethiopia's Amhara region on Saturday (October 30), where thousands of ethnic Amharas have sought refuge. Some farmers and organizations in Africa are adopting smart and technology-based solutions as the continent seek to prepare itself for the effects of climate change. In Kenya, one group has invested in cold storage facilities to ensure that excess agricultural produce that would have otherwise become gas-producing waste is collected, stored, and distributed to those in need, including victims of drought. The 26th United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change, or COP26, delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. Issues high on the agenda include finalizing the rules for the Paris Agreement’s market mechanism and wealthy countries’ unmet finance pledges to developing countries to help them tackle climate-related challenges. G-20 leaders concluded their two-day summit in Rome Sunday with an agreement to work to reach carbon neutrality “by around mid-century" and pledged to end financing for coal plants abroad. But they failed to agree on phasing out coal domestically. The different diaspora groups that now make up the United States inevitably have fought for representation through the voting process. VOA is profiling a group of emerging politicians from the African diaspora who are changing the face of American politics. In Samburu County, elephant calves rush across a dusty enclosure to take a gulp of milk, exposing their budding tusks as they opened their small mouths to take in feeding bottles