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Africa in the news: Elections in Ghana, US relations with Somalia and Morocco, and trade in East Africa

Incum­bent Pres­i­dent Nana Aku­­fo-Addo declared win­ner of Ghana­ian elec­tions  On Wednes­day, Decem­ber 9, Ghana’s incum­bent pres­i­dent Nana Aku­­fo-Addo won a sec­ond term in office, win­ning 51.59 per­cent of the vote in gen­er­al elec­tions that took place on Mon­day. Oppo­si­tion leader

Kenyan Court Awards Compensation to Victims of 2007 Election Violence

NAIROBI — A Kenyan court award­ed com­pen­sa­tion to four women who were sex­u­al­ly abused dur­ing the vio­lence that fol­lowed the dis­put­ed 2007 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Thurs­day’s judg­ment marks the first time a Kenyan court has rec­og­nized vic­tims of sex­u­al abuse from