Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has accused regional government forces in Tigray of carrying out a massacre on Monday which Amnesty International says may have killed hundreds of civilians.
US federal election officials have said the 2020 White House vote was the "most secure in American history", rejecting President Donald Trump's fraud claims.
Corey Lewandowski, who was Trump's first campaign manager in 2016 and is now helping lead the legal effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election result, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Pennsylvania - the state of Joe Biden's birth - handed the president-elect his victory, with major news organisations projecting him to have clinched its 20 electoral votes on Saturday.
Ivory Coast's President, Alassane Ouattara, and his main rival, Henri Konan Bédié, said they have decided to make peace in the country after weeks of violence over a disputed presidential election.
Mali’s former President Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being removed in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said.
A court in Nigeria's commercial city of Lagos is due to hear a case filed by a lawyer against the Central Bank of Nigeria to demand the removal of Arabic inscriptions in the local currency.
