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Amad Diallo shared a photo of his flight to Rome on Sunday as the Atalanta teenager prepared to officially become a Manchester United player. Diallo, 18, agreed to a move to Old Trafford worth up to £37 million ($48m) over the summer. But the clubs agreed to keep the youngster in Italian football until he was granted a work permit ...

With less than three weeks to take over the Oval Office as the president of the United State, Joe Biden has been making a number of crucial appointments across races in what has been described as a step in the right track for the biggest democracy in the world. The Democrat and former senator, 78, has appointed 100 people among ...

Niger’s prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday’s attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages. Brigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye – both near Niger’s border with Mali. It was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ...

Two French soldiers died in Mali on Saturday when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. The two were in the eastern region of Menaka collecting intelligence, the French presidency has said. It comes days after three other French soldiers died in a similar way. France has 5,100 troops in the Sahel region which has been a ...

More than 370 religious leaders from around the world are calling for a ban on conversion therapy – the attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. The signatories to the declaration represent all the world’s major faiths and many are known LGBT advocates. They include South African cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Chief Rabbi of Ireland ...

At least 27 people have been killed in an attack in southeast Niger, local officials have gathered. Other people were wounded and some reported missing on Saturday evening in the village of Toumour in the Diffa region, said a senior local official. Witnesses and other officials confirmed the attack, which came hours before municipal and regional elections went ahead across ...

In a remote corner of Sierra Leone, a man caught a glimpse of 16-year-old Marie Kamara as she ran past his house. Soon after, he proposed to her. “My family does not have money so when he told me he wanted me, I said ‘yes’, said Kamara. The financial pressure on her family felt more pressing than her wish to ...

Nigerian authorities are stepping up efforts to rescue more than 300 students abducted by armed men who raided their hostels. Gunmen on motorcycles stormed the Government Science School in Kankara late on Friday and engaged security forces in a fierce gun battle, forcing hundreds of students to flee and hide in surrounding bushes and forest. State Governor Aminu Bello Masari, ...

South African football star Motjeka Madisha has died aged 25 after his car crashed and burst into flames on a road east of the main city Johannesburg. The Mamelodi Sundowns defender managed to crawl out of the burning wreckage before he died, AFP news agency quoted an unnamed club official as saying. Another person in the vehicle also died, local ...

The government of Eswatini says Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini has died, four weeks after he tested positive for coronavirus. A government statement said Dlamini, 52, died on Sunday afternoon in hospital in South Africa. No cause of death was mentioned, but Dlamini had recently been receiving treatment for Covid-19 in South Africa. Dlamini had been prime minister of Eswatini, formerly ...