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WhatsApp has postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal.

President Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be impeached twice after the House passed an article charging him with “incitement of insurrection.”

The African Association of Automotive Manufacturers welcomed the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area, which came into being on 1 January.

The US Congress has certified Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, hours after Trump supporters stormed the building in an attack that saw four people die.

US democratic processes ground to a halt on Wednesday when thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Capitol Hill.

Kaavan, an elephant translocated from Pakistan, took his first steps into his new life in Cambodia on Monday. After a 7-hour flight from Islamabad, Kaavan took up residence at the Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary in Siem Reap Province.

President Donald Trump, however, is still not willing to concede and just on Monday morning told his nearly 89 million Twitter followers that he had won the elections and still maintains that there was election fraud.

The global cases of COVID-19 have increased by 8% compared to the previous week, totalling more than 3.6 million new cases, while new deaths increased by 21% to over 54 000.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has congratulated Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on their victory in the US presidential election.