The outcome of the US election has been polarising, no doubt, and to many communities, it is traumatising. The aftermath leaves a wake of fears, tears and unresolved anxieties about the future.

Republican billionaire Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast Sunday he would forgo the $400,000 salary that comes with the US president's job.

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka yesterday decried what he termed ‘media fascism’ and condemned ‘noisome creatures’ believed to have masterminded the hysteria trailing his ‘personal’ decision to relocate from the United States of America if Donald Trump had won the presidential election.

For now, that moment having passed, I must be culpable of breaking a solemn promise. By the way, since we are on the terrain of literalism, has anyone attempted to ”tear” or rip apart a Green Card? Even a Credit Card?

Now, the world has crossed into stage three with the Trump crisis. He is in the White House, the most powerful and significant leadership location in the world.

Earlier this week I was all set to write this column on witnessing the historical event of the election of the first female president of the United States of America.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday rejected the idea that bogus stories shared at the social network paved a path of victory for President-elect Donald Trump.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was encouraged by Donald Trump's efforts to reach out to fellow Americans after a bitter election, and that the country was "rooting" for his success as head of state.

Hillary Clinton vowed Wednesday to work with American President-elect Donald Trump, and urged fellow Democrats to allow him the chance to lead the deeply divided country.

US House Speaker Paul Ryan, the country's top elected Republican who had distanced himself from Donald Trump's populist White House run, said Wednesday he looks forward to working with the incoming president.

She lost to Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries in 2008. Now she has been humiliated in her second bid for the presidency by political novice and former TV reality show host Donald Trump.

US President Barack Obama called Donald Trump, his newly-elected successor, Wednesday to congratulate him on his victory and invited him to the White House for talks on Thursday.