Africa 54 - November 11, 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: Ethiopian authorities have rounded up high-profile Tigrayans - from a bank CEO to priests as well as United Nations staff - in a mass crackdown on suspected supporters of rebellious northern forces, according to people linked to the detainees. Former South African President F.W. de Klerk, the man who oversaw South Africa’s transition from apartheid to full democracy for its majority black population, has died at the age of 85.A spokesman for the F.W. de Klerk Foundation said the former president died at his home Thursday after a brief battle with mesothelioma, a form of cancer that affects the lungs. Terrorist attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of survivors and what it could mean if extracting gold, the country's primary source of income, becomes too dangerous. Like many nations hit by COVID-19, South Africa has seen rising unemployment and hunger since the onset of the pandemic. Award-winning waste converters are helping farmers in Ivory Coast turn mountains of agricultural by-products into compost for their fields or gas for their cooking stoves. The United States and China surprised the COP26 climate summit Wednesday with a joint declaration to develop long-term strategies to try to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius over the next decade. It comes as delegates enter the final hours of negotiation on a deal to slow global warming. Children between the ages of 5 and 11 are rolling up their sleeves to get their first COVID vaccine shot as mini doses of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine has been approved for children. The United Nations says nearly 690 million people worldwide were undernourished in 2019. The UN also projects that this number could continue to increase due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say among other things, climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are contributing to an alarming worsening of the global malnutrition epidemic. For more insights, Africa 54 Linord Moudou spoke with Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID. Street gang leader Gloire Balume extends a capoeira kick at his friend, who ducks and blocks the threatening leg, before responding with a deft kick of his own