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Ghana mourns death of Jerry Rawlings, suspends election campaigns

By Victoria Ojeme The government of the Republic of Ghana has announced the death of their former President, Jerry Rawlings and an immediate suspension of election campaigns over its morning. Rawlings, born June 22, 1947 in Accra, Ghana was a military and political leader in Ghana who twice (1979, 1981) overthrew the government and seized […]

Can Trump block Biden’s victory?

Since US media declared Joe Biden’s White House victory on Saturday, President Donald Trump has refused to concede and repeatedly made baseless claims of election fraud. Trump’s team has mounted legal challenges in at least five key states yet experts see the possibility of the courts overturning the result of the vote as vanishingly small. […]

Israel uncovers King David-era fortress in occupied Golan

Archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a fortified structure from the time of the King David on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that sheds light on the borders of a Biblical Israeli ally. The 3,000-year-old fort, found near the Jewish settlement of Hispin ahead of works to build a new neighbourhood, is believed to have belonged to the […]

Senegal reopens schools after months-long virus break

Senegalese children resumed classes on Thursday after the government closed schools in March in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in the West African nation. Some four million primary- and secondary-school pupils were meant to return to classrooms, but the turnout nationwide was unclear. UNICEF had said last month that only one in […]

US election system is archaic — Russia

The US system of electing presidents is archaic and distorts the will of the people, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than five million ballots in the US last week but that translated to an extremely tight margin in the electoral college that ultimately decides […]

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