The Covid-19 pandemic cast a long pall over 2020 but it also saw President Donald Trump beaten by Joe Biden in a tumultuous US election and the Black Lives Matter movement shake the world. While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims victory, Scotland’s anti-Brexit leader Nicola Sturgeon says its future is “an independent, European nation”. The Black Lives Matter movement leads to a major debate about race and the toppling of statues of figures linked to slavery or colonisation. 2020 sees US-China relations nosedive, with Trump calling Covid-19 the “China virus” and saying Beijing is responsible for “a mass worldwide killing”. Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed orders a military response to attacks on federal army camps in the dissident northern Tigray region.

Source: Ethiopian News December 27, 2020 02:03 UTC