In a closely watched run-off election in Liberia, opposition leader Joseph Boakai has taken a narrow lead with 50.6% of the vote, as reported by the country's elections commission on Thursday. President George Weah trails closely with 49.4%, with results tallied from approximately 87% of polling stations.The electoral competition between Boakai and Weah began in October when both candidates emerged neck-and-neck from the initial round of voting. However, neither sec...

The Ministry of Territorial Administration in Mali made the result of the Sunday's election known to the public on Thursday and the result shows that the incumbent President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita (IBK) won 41.4 percent of the vote, while his close opponent Soumaila Cisse came second with 17.8 percent.With the election's result, it means that non of the aspirants can be declared winner since they all fail to secure over 50 per cent constitutional benchmar...

In a shocking turn of events on Sunday afternoon, a man, identified later as an active-duty airman, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The Metropolitan Police Department reported the incident, and U.S. Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek confirmed the man's active-duty status.Around 1 p.m., officers from the U.S. Secret Service managed to extinguish the fire outside the embassy in northwestern Washington, as reported by Vito Maggiolo, a sp...