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On January 20, former Vice President Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Every four years, Americans pause for this peaceful transfer of power — a potent symbol of American democracy. VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports.

At least 15,000 armed National Guard troops will provide support for U.S. Capitol security before and during the inauguration of President-election Joe Biden on January 20th. Daria Dieguts has more on the National Guard and its role.

Scores of privately owned schools in Kenya have closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. But some of the school buildings have been repurposed as businesses, such as providing residential housing and even one selling coffins. Brenda Mulinya reports from Nairobi

More than 150,000 people from 154 countries are at the U.S. Consumer Electronics Show – all online - this week. Michelle Quinn reports

Malawi is struggling to quarantine migrant workers returning from South Africa who were being tested for COVID-19. At a facility this week, returnees upset over living conditions clashed with police, and authorities say about 20 returnees at the facility escaped. Lameck Masina reports.

MDC Alliance vice chairperson, Job Sikhala, is unhappy over he manner he is being handled by the Zimbabwe Correctional Services following his arrest over claims that he published or communicated falsehoods on Twitter. Here he is in leg irons and handcuffs. (VOA)

Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono appearing in court for allegedly publishing or communicating a falshood. He allegedly posted a video on Twitter claiming that a policeman killed a child who was strapped on his mother's back. Police say the tweet was false.

Ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20th, law enforcement and local government officials in Washington, D.C., are implementing unprecedented security measures to avoid the kind of massive security breach that happened last week when thousands of people stormed the Capitol.

The world’s leading democracies should form a coalition to counter China’s human rights abuses at home and its support for authoritarianism overseas, according to a group of British lawmakers. The ‘China Research Group’ says Britain is in desperate need of a ‘coherent’ policy on China.

The Democratic-majority US House impeached President Donald Trump Wednesday, charging him with inciting an insurrection attempting to overturn the Electoral College vote count at the US Capitol last week. The trial in the US Senate will not start after January 20th.