Hello,
01. This is a pre-footer area. Navigate to Theme Settings > Footer > Prefooter and disable the Pre-footer option or edit the HTML Block to edit the prefooter content.
02. Regarding the recent post in the footer, navigate to Appearance > Widgets > there you can find Footer-related columns to remove widgets in them. Then, navigate to Theme Settings > Footer > Choose your footer layout. Depending on the number of columns, you will have a different number of widget areas for the footer in Appearance->Widgets.
Here is the footer documentation: https://xtemos.com/docs-topic/set-up-footer/
Best Regards,