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As the election hangs in the balance, the campaign teams for both candidates maintain they’ve done enough to win the White House. The race has come down to a handful of swing states where ballots are still being counted. “The ...

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 ...

While the daily confirmed cases of COVID 19 are consistently increasing worldwide, the world religious leaders from seven major religions gathered at the online meeting for the World Interfaith Joint Prayer Conference on the 26th of October. Approximately 600 people ...

Liberian President George Weah will not seek a third term in office, his chief of staff has said. The West African country in preparing for a referendum on proposed changes to the constitution to reduce the number of years in ...

Maalim Seif Sharif was at a polling station on Tuesday morning when police officers hauled him away, his ACT Wazalendo party said. US Ambassador to Tanzania Donald Wright said he was “alarmed by reports from Zanzibar and elsewhere of violence, deaths ...

Nigeria’s Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, has promised justice for the victims who were shot during Tuesday’s protest at the Lekki toll gate in the commercial hub Lagos. Amnesty International has said at least 12 people were killed by soldiers and police ...

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo who doubles as the Chairman of ECOWAS has called for calm in Nigeria following the chaos that has erupted between protestors and security officials. President Akufo-Addo who has been criticised for his seeming silence since the ...

US President Donald Trump has said Sudan will come off a list of state sponsors of terror if it pays compensation of $335m (£259m). Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok responded by saying the funds had been transferred but there was ...

Alpha Condé, Guinea’s 82-year-old head of state, will this Sunday ask his country’s 5.4 million voters for a third term, opening what promises to be a tense, high-stakes electoral season for West Africa, with contests soon following in Ivory Coast, ...

The authorities in Rwanda have penalised two Catholic priests after presiding over masses that violated coronavirus safety measures. The Catholic parish of Ruhengeri in the north of the country, where the priests are stationed, also risks closure. The two priests, ...