#BREAKING Speculation is growing that US strongman Donald Trump may have fled the country in the wake of #AmericanSpring pro-democracy protests. The aging former reality show star and his family have not been seen nor heard from despite numerous calls to his official residence.

#BREAKING #AmericanSpring pro-democracy protesters surround the White House, a hated symbol of the country's slave-owning past, following a rumour that President Trump is holed up inside. The demonstrators are demanding the despot step down and not seek another term in November.

#BREAKING Trump and his family are widely perceived as incompetent and suspected of abusing the powerful Presidency to enrich themselves, undermine the system of checks and balances and to subvert the democratic will of the people through meddling in the election. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING AU Peace and Security Council agrees to retrofit the #BLACKSTOP mission, which was created to keep peace in the tribal regions of the UK during the #Brexit talks, and deploy it to the US under the codename Operation #SITHOLE, after a famous Zulu warrior. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING A press statement from the AU PSC urges US strongman Donald Trump to cooperate with the AU peacekeeping mission, whose troops are drawn from across the continent, and notes that America would now have the honour of being "the first #SITHOLE country". #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING The whereabouts of aging US dictator, Donald Trump, remain a mystery after #AmericanSpring pro-democracy protesters surrounded the White House in defiance of his threat to unleash "vicious dogs" and other unspecified "ominous weapons" should they enter the compound.

#BREAKING The first and so far only African journalist reporting from inside the US (identity and location withheld for safety reasons) says rumours abound of secret talks between the aging embattled dictator and his older rival from the leftist Democratic Party. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta calls for calm as violence sweeps across ethnically divided, nuclear-armed USA; threatens to refer situation to the International Criminal Court if US govt continues to brutalize pro-democracy protesters and journalists. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING After acrimonious debate, the AU's Peace and Security Council declares "premature" a Libyan proposal to impose a no-fly zone on the USA in order to protect pro-democracy protesters in the oil rich, crisis-torn north American nation. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING Kenyan Chief Justice David Maraga reveals that African judiciaries are looking into the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to determine whether they can try US public officials for crimes committed against African-Americans and pro-democracy protesters. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING Extraordinary summit of AU heads of state calls for calm across the troubled, strategically located United States, urging dialogue to address the concerns of pro-democracy and human rights protesters and to prevent further violence. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING African leaders also noted that "political instability in the US could destabilize North and Central America" and declared that that must be prevented "at all costs". They urged the former colonial power, the UK, to take the lead in helping secure peace. #AmericanSpring

#BREAKING Africans were "horrified" by images of police beating protesters and journalists, the statement says. "This cannot be allowed in the 21st century" it adds, concluding with an offer to conduct human rights training for the "notoriously brutal" US police. #AmericanSpring