Bloomberg President Joe Biden signs an executive order mandating federal departments and agencies increase efforts to help Americans register to vote, as the White House looks for ways to offset Republican efforts to toughen voting standards. The executive action will direct federal facilities to accept requests from states — which each run their own voter processes — to become registration ...

Bloomberg A senior official in South Africa’s ruling party said the government should reject an attempt to impeach the country’s public prosecutor, according to the Sunday Times. According to Ace Magashule, a motion to investigate Busisiwe Mkhwebane is a strategy by the main opposition party to divide the governing African National Congress. The motion from the opposition Democratic Alliance for ...

Bloomberg Anti-government activists in Senegal announced three days of nationwide protests from Monday as death toll in most violent demonstrations in years rise to five, triggered by the arrest of the country’s main opposition leader. The opposition called on Senegalese people “to pursue its mobilisation and peaceful struggle by using all of its constitutional rights to reject dictatorship of Macky ...