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US Vice President Mike Pence received a Covid-19 vaccine live on television Friday in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug, while President-elect Joe Biden is set to receive his shot on Monday.

The United States on Friday authorized Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, as the country grapples with a brutal winter surge that is killing over 2,500 people a day.

Hopes that the soldiers behind Mali's coup would swiftly restore civilian rule and tackle jihadist and ethnic violence are fading fast as the army expands its role.

Pierre Buyoya, the former president of Burundi who twice seized power in military coups and oversaw a prolonged ethnic civil war that killed 300,000 of his countrymen, has died at 71, the government announced on Friday.

The Boko Haram jihadist group released a video claiming to show schoolboys seized in a mass kidnapping in northwest Nigeria last week.