Bloomberg Georgia’s elections chief was sued by a group of non-profit civic organisations that claim a new voting law signed by the state’s Republican governor will make it harder for minorities to cast ballots. The lawsuit, against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, is one of the first challenges to a wave of voting restrictions taking shape in state legislatures ...

Bloomberg Somalia said Kenya is politicising refugee camps, which have sheltered hundreds of thousands of Somali nationals for three decades, by moving to have them closed. Kenya upped pressure on the United Nations this week to come up with a plan to shut down the country’s Kakuma and Dadaab camps, saying their continued existence posed a security threat to East ...

Bloomberg Britain and the European Union (EU) took their first step since Brexit to cooperate on financial services, agreeing on a new forum to discuss market regulation. The move could help finance firms in the City of London to eventually win back some access to the single market they lost when the UK left the EU. The two sides have ...