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Madagascar: Ravalomanana challenges results in court, Rajoelina calls for calm

Ravalomanana challenges results in court Marc Ravalomanana’s campaign team was quick to dismiss the official results, alleging that the electoral commission “facilitated fraud” in favour of Andry Rajoelina. The team said they had asked for the cancellation of the poll result in a filing with the High Constitutional Court, which has nine days to decide whether to confirm the provisional ...

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Man Utd news: Mike Phelan is the reason for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s winning start – insider

MANCHESTER UNITED have made the right call to name Mike Phelan as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s No 2, according to a club insider. Manchester United parted ways with Jose Mourinho earlier this month, with Ed Woodward opting to pull the plug on the 55-year-old’s Old Trafford career. In the immediate aftermath of that action, it was announced that Solskjaer would be ...

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Sudan protest hub: Nine opposition leaders arrested ahead of fresh protests

Opposition leaders arrested Civil society groups on Friday accused authorities of arresting at least nine opposition leaders, ahead of fresh anti-government protests expected after weekly Muslim prayers. A committee of professional organisations involved in the protests said in a statement that authorities had raided a meeting of opposition leaders in Khartoum. They detained a total of nine people, including Siddiq ...

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North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked

Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was hacked, the unification ministry said. A personal computer at the state-run centre was found to have been “infected with a malicious code”. The ministry said this is thought to be the first large-scale information leak involving North Korean defectors. ...

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Fayulu to win DRC election: new opinion poll

A new opinion poll for the presidential election in Democratic Republic of Congo says opposition candidate Martin Fayulu of the Lamuka coalition, has become the clear favourite to win, ahead of Felix Tshisekedi and the government-backed Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary. Fayulu, a former Exxon Mobil manager, was little known when he was picked as the joint candidate of an opposition coalition ...

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Mauricio Pochettino: Tottenham boss makes huge comparison amid Man Utd rumours

MAURICIO POCHETTINO reckons Tottenham winning the Premier League would be a far greater achievement than Atletico Madrid winning La Liga in the 2013-14 season. “It’s difficult to find ­another club doing the same or ­delivering the same work as us – the philosophy. Every single club is ­special and is different,” said Pochettino. “I was thinking about this the other ...

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