#BREAKING Relatives of US autocrat, Donald Trump, who is barricaded in the presidential palace, are reportedly trying to flee the country as the "American Spring" revolution sweeping the troubled oil-rich nation following disputed presidential elections threatens to topple him.
#BREAKING Despised by many, the Trumps have monopolized government appointments, corruptly using them to build a global business empire and enrich their friends and associates, many of whom are known criminals, while ignoring the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
#BREAKING Weary of the US autocrat's intransigence, after he barricaded himself in the presidential palace and rejected results from the nation's presidential elections, African capitals are threatening to impose targeted sanctions on Donald Trump's family and hardline regime.
#BREAKING As pressure mounts on US despot Donald Trump to leave his bunker and commit to accept the results of the presidential election, a source within the AU mediation team says a Trump ally has floated the idea of a national unity government with Joe Biden as Prime Minister.
#BREAKING The source says the proposal for a unity government is not realistic and may be a ploy by the besieged US dictator to get AU envoy, Monica Juma, to sweeten her offer - perhaps by including soft drinks along with fast food - before he agrees to leave the White House.
#BREAKING Kenyans in strife-torn US told to prepare for evacuation in what may signal a breakdown in talks to get strongman Donald Trump to leave his bunker. More worrying signs as delivery man who earlier entered the Green Zone in the capital is seen exiting with uneaten pizza.
#BREAKING In apparent fit of rage following failure of talks and withdrawal of of fast food offer, US tyrant Donald Trump posts tweet discrediting the election he claims to have won. Exasperated AU mediator, Monica Juma, urges Americans to stay calm, says talks will resume later.
#BREAKING As evacuations begin, Kenyans emerge from the interior of crisis-wracked US with terrifying tales of surviving armed extremist militants in pickups flying flags and patrolling the streets, mass hospitalizations and deaths from covid-19, and terrible economic hardship.
#BREAKING Researchers from the Royal American Society say Donald Trump exemplifies the "big-man syndrome" that has corrupted politics in a culture where leaders were traditionally seen as gods, with their faces carved into mountains and their words preserved as sources of wisdom.
#BREAKING In chilling scenes reminiscent of the infamous 2011 "rivers of blood" speech by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of then embattled Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, Donald Trump Jr, son of embattled US dictator, Donald Trump, has vowed "total war" to keep his father in power.
#BREAKING Looking hungry, besieged and isolated, US autocrat, Donald Trump, finally emerges from his bunker to make a brief, defiant statement to reporters at the entrance to the fortified Green Zone in the capital, Washington DC; vows not to leave the presidential palace.
#BREAKING "Democracy is about people casting votes, not officials counting them," US despot, Donald Trump tells reporters, calling the continuing vote count in the chaotic presidential election a "coup", and accusing AU envoy Monica Juma of trying to starve him into submission.
#BREAKING As the vote count in the country's chaotic presidential election continues to imperil his presidency, US ruler Donald Trump has for the first time offered to accept the result if he loses and to hand over power to his son, Donald Trump Jr, who he has named Crown Prince.
#BREAKING AU peace mediator, Monica Juma, appeals for calm as tensions continue to rise in the strife-torn, banana-growing, north American nation of USA, over shambolic presidential elections whose results have been rejected by corrupt, authoritarian incumbent, Donald Trump.
#BREAKING "Wouldn't you rather go to Trump University than to the Electoral College?" tweets newly appointed US Crown Prince Donald Trump Jr. as he rallies support from the ruling Republican party for the family's succession plan should his father lose the presidential election.
#BREAKING As Kenyan evacuees arrive in Nairobi with heart-wrenching stories of the terrible humanitarian and political situation they have escaped in the crisis-wracked US, pressure is growing for military intervention by African governments to protect innocent American lives.
#BREAKING Kenya requests emergency Summit of AU Heads of State to discuss the deteriorating situation in the US, where shambolic presidential elections are threatening to ignite civil war in north America's ethnically divided, disease-ravaged, political and economic basket case.
#BREAKING Emergency meeting of AU leaders in Addis Ababa issues an ultimatum to US despot, Donald Trump, to leave the presidential palace and accept the results of the nation's chaotic presidential election "for the sake of peace and stability", or face unspecified consequences.
#BREAKING As the American Spring revolution sweeps aside the brutal regime of Donald Trump, analysts are warning the international community to stay engaged as the crisis in the volatile, nuclear armed north American nation could still spiral into a new and more dangerous phase.
#BREAKING AU peace envoy Monica Juma has urged Americans to remain calm as they wait to see whether the aging tyrant, Donald Trump, will peacefully and voluntarily step down or whether the international community will be called upon to force him to exit the presidential palace.
#BREAKING Having systematically demolished public confidence in the independence and integrity of all other arms of government, US dictator Donald Trump now sets his sights on the country's courts where he will challenge his electoral loss before his hand-picked judges.
#BREAKING African analysts and observers demand US news networks call Pennsylvania for Joe Biden so they can go to bed, with some comparing the coverage of the release of election results to CNN's obsessive coverage of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014.
#BREAKING As aging US autocrat, Donald Trump, clings on to power by barricading himself in the presidential palace, analysts note that his tweets are no longer in all caps which may indicate the famously narcissistic online bully may finally be coming to terms with his fate.
#BREAKING As officials in crisis-wracked US struggle to count votes for a fourth day, African nations have offered to send contingents of math teachers to help speed up the process and bolster capacity in what many on the continent hope will become the world's newest democracy.
#BREAKING His authority crumbling, old and isolated, depressed, ridiculed around the world, debt-ridden and stalked by disease as his chief of staff gets coronavirus, analysts say US dictator, Donald Trump, the "most powerful man in the world", has remade the nation in his image.
#BREAKING Aging opposition leader and former vice-president, Joe Biden, is set to be declared winner of disputed elections in the north American nation of USA, which has abundant natural resources but is sadly plagued by deep ethnic animosities and a rapacious, corrupt elite.
#BREAKING AU appoints Milton Allimadi, who is leading a team of African election observers in strife-torn US, as head of the Marshall Plan For Democracy project, which will train US officials on governance and elections, and support American pro-democracy civil society groups.
#BREAKING An intrepid explorer and discoverer of the Gulu river in Europe, as part of his observer mission Mr Allimadi has undertaken a dangerous expedition deep into the US interior to speak with natives about the values of tolerance, democracy, and accepting election results.
#BREAKING Report from Lusaka-based Kanegi Foundation warns that despite the democratic progress achieved by the American Spring revolution, the multi-pronged humanitarian crisis afflicting the poor, disease-plagued interior of the US is likely to get worse before it gets better.
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