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US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia has been confirmed by a recount, as legal efforts by Donald Trump’s allies to challenge his defeat were dismissed in three states. The Democrat beat his Republican rival in Georgia by 12,284 votes, according to the audit required by state law. Mr Biden …

Michigan and Washington are the latest US states to bring in strict measures to try and curb the spread of Covid-19. High schools and colleges are to halt on-site teaching and restaurants are prohibited from offering indoor dining in Michigan from Wednesday. Indoor restaurant dining is also banned in Washington …

Germany’s federal government and states are considering tighter COVID-19 restrictions, such as dramatically reducing the number of people at private gatherings and compulsory mask wearing for school students.  On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss potential new measures with the heads of the country’s 16 states via video conference. A draft document …

Donald Trump has insisted he is not conceding the US election, despite seemingly acknowledging for the first time that Democrat Joe Biden won. “He won because the Election was Rigged,” the Republican president wrote on Twitter, repeating unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. About an hour later he said he was …

US President-elect Joe Biden is to make tackling the coronavirus pandemic his top priority following his win over Donald Trump, his team says. Announcing the first steps in his transition plan, his team said there would be more testing and Americans would be asked to wear masks. On Monday, Mr …

US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have spent the final hours of the White House race delivering their closing pitch to voters in critical states. Mr Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania and Ohio, as Mr Trump toured the voting battlegrounds of Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. …

The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has been identified as the major determinant of who leads in today’s presidential election in the country. This is the thought of some academic faculty members in some top US universities. On Monday, a lecturer at the University of Florida, …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday warned hoodlums who have hijacked the End SARS protest to cause mayhem across the country to stop. Buhari issued the warning during his nationwide broadcast aimed at addressing the ongoing mayhem by hoodlums who have hijacked the protest. The president also declared that Nigerians reserve …

Some Ghanaians are unhappy with the responses of some Nigerians to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s comment on the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Ghanaians have supported Nigerians on social media since the protests against police brutality in Nigeria started. A lot of them called on President Akufo-Addo, who is also the …

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) says it expects Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is also the leader of sub-regional block ECOWAS, to publicly comment on developments in Nigeria. According to the Executive Director of the group Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, a public statement on the chaos in the …