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to be pushed back.” The key focus of the day was the Women’s March on Washington DC, which was estimated to have attracted more than half a million people.

Ugly Betty star America Ferrera, who helped organise the march, told the crowd: “It’s been a heartbreaking time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country.”

Other cities throughout the US saw similar marches. In Australia thousands joined an antiTrump protest in Sydney.

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Chants from the crowd includedd “when women’s rights are under attack, what do we do, stand up, fight back.”

Some carried banners with messagess such as “Girl Power vs. Trump Tower” and “Dumpump the Trump”.

Their chants were echoed by protestsests in Berlin, Dublin, Paris, Auckland and Cape Town, South Africa, where people also marched in opposition to the values they hey think Mr Trump represents. Marchers in Cape Town carried banners with slogans such as “climate change is a women’s issue” and “so over mediocre men running things”.

Other African nations to stage women’s march events included Ghana and Malawi.

At least 2.2 million people marched globally to promote women’s and human rights with many wearing “pink pussy hats”.

The turnout for the march in Washington was so big that crowds packed the entire march route, preventing organisers from leading a formal trek towards the White House.

In Chicago, organisers cancelled the march portion of their event for safety reasons after the overflow crowd reached an estimated 150,000.

In Nigeria the party atmosphere turned to tragedy as 20 people were reported to have been killed after a demonstration in support of Mr Trump led to clashes with police.

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The rally was organised by the Indigenous People of Biafra, which wants Mr Trump to support the creation of an independent Biafran state for the Igbo people. Member Ugochukwu Chinweuba said more than 200 people are still missing. A police spokesman denied that anyone was killed but said 65 people had been arrested. One million people died in the 1967-70 civil war over efforts to create a Biafran state. The protest was so big that 1,000 more buses ferried people to the capital than they did for Trump’s inauguration the day before. It was an era-defining uprising that will take its place alongside other legendary US marches such as the 1963 civil rights demonstrations.

They came from all over America, many wearing bright-pink knitted “pussy caps” carrying imaginative placards, such as “Impeach the Narcissist”, “Keep Your Filthy Paws Off My Silky Drawers”, “Make My Pussy Safe Again” and “Keep Your Tiny Hands Off Our Rights”.

Artist Catherine Nunn, 57, said: “I’m here to keep that grotesque man away from all that women have achieved and he hates. I loathe him.”

Her pal, Bonnie Woodruff, 58, said: “He is taking us back to the dark ages. We have to make a stand.”

Hollywood stars including Edie Falco, Ashley Judd and Scarlett Johansson attended and Trump’s rival Hillary Clinton tweeted a message of support.