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Voters choose a new president as the current leader moves to a new elevated role of "supreme guide".

The continent has had less than 100,000 cases so far, but could be in for a prolonged outbreak.

Opposition activists, including an MP, say they were beaten and forced to drink urine by state agents.

The US Supreme Court rules in favour of damages over the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Riek Machar, who was part of a taskforce to fight the pandemic, has tested positive for coronavirus.