People cast their vote into cardboard box urns during a mock ballot vote between US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Kenya’s lakeside town of Kisumu on November 08, 2016, in which Clinton emerged the winner. Sentiment at the lakeside town and the country at large appeared to remain strong in favour of US’ Democratic party, whose outgoing President, Barack Obama is considered a son given his father’s Kenyan heritage, more so at Kogelo, about 60 kilomtres from Kisumu, the birthplace of his father, Obama Snr. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA
Canada’s immigration website has crashed as Americans watched Donald Trump take the lead and then win the US election.
Searches for “move to Canada” and “immigrate to Canada” spiked on Tuesday night as election returns started favouring the Republican nominee.
The website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada was down at the same time, and has suffered several outages since.
Republician presidential nominee Donald Trump waves as he arrives at a polling station in New York where Trump was to cast his ballot, November 8, 2016. / AFP PHOTO
Amid financial markets mayhem in the wake of Mr Trump’s shocking victory, reaction across the world started pouring in.
The head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said Mr Trump’s victory would reduce geopolitical confrontations.
“A less confrontational US foreign policy will unlock major opportunities for joint (Russia-US) trade and investment,” said Kirill Dmitriev.
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