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

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/global_ghana_2020_voter.jpg?w=258Incum­bent 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

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US Allows Emergency COVID-19 Vaccine in Bid to End Pandemic 

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/ap-images/2020/12/780ed15a5e61f3718219d9ac78e6acb2.jpg?imwidth=800The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Fri­day to the nation’s first COVID-19 vac­cine, mark­ing what could be the begin­ning of the end of an out­break that has killed near­ly 300,000 Amer­i­cans, accord­ing to a per­son famil­iar with the deci­sion but

Trump Administration Moves Forward With $1B Moroccan Arms Deal 

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2020–12–11T223655Z_1698794757_RC2ALK9B1RQ6_RTRMADP_3_USA-MOROCCO-DRONES.JPG?imwidth=800 WASHINGTON — Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion moved for­ward with $1 bil­lion in sales of drones and pre­­ci­­sion-guid­ed weapons to Moroc­co on Fri­day, send­ing a notice to Con­gress about the poten­tial deals, accord­ing to sources famil­iar with the noti­fi­ca­tion. The

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WHO Seeks Global Access to Approved Coronavirus Vaccines

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/reuters-images/2020/12/reuters_com_2020_newsml_RC2YDK9W5NX5.jpg?imwidth=800The World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) says action and mon­ey are need­ed to ensure coro­n­avirus vac­cines are avail­able around the world as West­ern nations approve them. Dur­ing Friday’s COVID-19 brief­ing at WHO head­quar­ters in Gene­va, Direc­­tor-Gen­er­al Tedros Adhanom Ghe­breye­sus applaud­ed the

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Kenyan Court Awards Compensation to Victims of 2007 Election Violence

https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2020–12/2007–12–30T120000Z_455924949_GM1DWXWBGGAA_RTRMADP_3_KENYA-ELECTION-VIOLENCE.JPG?imwidth=800NAIROBI — 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