Africa 54 - November 22, 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: Sudan's civilian prime minister Abdalla Hamdok was reinstated on Sunday - but protests continued with some pro-democracy groups accusing Hamdok of "selling out the revolution". U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday expressed deep concern during a visit to Dakar, Senegal for the stability of neighboring Mali and violence in Ethiopia. Conway G. Gittens has more on Blinken's final stop in Africa. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently announced it had imposed sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Force, whose soldiers have fought in the Tigray region alongside Ethiopian forces, and Eritrea's only political party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice. Eritrea’s foreign ministry slammed the sanctions saying they are meant to destabilize the country. After a century and a half-hidden away in luxurious private collections and displayed in grand European museums, thirteen stolen Ethiopian artifacts have finally returned home following months of private negotiations. Spanish Coastguard rescued three ships carrying migrants off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday night. The boats carrying respectively 38, 36, and 48 people, including seven women and a little girl, were intercepted south of the Spanish island. All the migrants were safely transferred to Arguineguin port by the authorities. Gunmen killed a policeman and kidnapped five Chinese nationals near a mine in the southeast Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, a local official and an army spokesman said on Sunday. It was not clear who carried out the attack near the village of Mukera in South Kivu province. Relations are already strained between Chinese mining companies and local authorities, who say some firms are operating illegally without licenses. A Kenyan ride-hailing company has introduced electric bicycle rentals for the first time in the capital, where air pollution and motor vehicle traffic are problems. Lenny Ruvaga reports from Nairobi. People took to the streets in several European countries over the weekend to protest tighter coronavirus restrictions. As parts of the EU see record spiking cases, elected officials in some of those nations have begun limiting public life for the unvaccinated. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more. As people in the United States prepare to gather for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, health authorities continue to push for vaccination to protect against COVID-19 and say all inoculated adults can get a booster shot. Michelle Quinn reports. The U.S. aims to raise COVID-19 vaccine production by more than a billion doses in 2022.The intended increase in effort and manufacturing comes as U.S. lawmakers are questioning inequities in global vaccine distribution and vaccination rates among richer and poorer nations. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more