Kenya's elections chief declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of a tight presidential race on Monday but some senior election officials disowned the result, fuelling fears of violence like that seen after previous disputed polls.
Scores of traders at the popular Uwelu International spare parts market in Benin on Monday shutdown the Ugbowo axis of Benin-Lagos expressway to protest the deplorable condition of the Uwelu road.
Ukrainian forces reported heavy Russian shelling and attempts to advance on several towns in the eastern region of Donetsk that has become a key focus of the near six-month-old war, but said they had repelled many of the attacks.