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CRISTIANO RONALDO wants Real Madrid to sign Mohamed Salah and David De Gea. Liverpool star man Salah has been in fine form for the Reds this season, with the ex-Chelsea winger netting 43 goals in all competitions under Jurgen Klopp. De Gea, meanwhile, is on course to win the Premier League Golden Glove, with the Manchester United No 1 keeping ...

REAL MADRID president Florentino Perez is confident he will land David De Gea this summer. The Manchester United ace is a long-term target for the Spanish giants. De Gea, 27, nearly joined Real in 2015 but a late fax ended any hope of a deal. Reports have suggested Real haven’t given up hope of landing De Gea, who has impressed ...

A South African man has been found guilty of killing his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend in a case that shocked the country last year. The High Court in Johannesburg concluded that Sandile Mantsoe stabbed Karabo Mokoena, and tried to conceal the crime by burning her remains. Her killing sparked outrage with women using the hashtag #MenAreTrash. South Africa has one of the ...

Apple is returning another $100bn (£73bn) to shareholders from its huge cash pile as solid iPhone sales helped revenues rise 16% to just over $61bn. The company sold 52.2 million iPhones in the three months to March – only a touch below expectations, despite waning global demand for smart phones. Revenues at Apple’s services business that includes Apple Music and ...

Entrepreneurs are people who dare to dream and concoct ideas that can be translated into a successful business. Over 550,000 people jump into the entrepreneur pool each month. Some just dip a toe; others do a cannonball. There are those that sink, some that swim and the lucky few who qualify for the Olympics their first time out. No matter ...

A British businessman has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa for justice over the loss of his million-pound business investment in Harare nearly a decade ago. Paul Westwood claims Temba Mliswa, an independent MP, forcibly took over his company Noshio Motors and Benbar in 2009 under the guise of the indigenisation act, which required large white and foreign-owned firms to cede ...

President Donald Trump says he and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari did not discuss his reported use of a vulgarity in describing African countries earlier this year. Answering a reporter’s question Monday, Trump said he and Buhari did not talk about reports that he used a term for a filthy toilet when telling US lawmakers that he wanted less immigration from ...

Gabon’s constitutional court on Monday dissolved the national parliament and called on the government to step down, criticising its failure to organise legislative elections as required. The court announced that President Ali Bongo would nominate a new ministerial team answerable directly to him, the court’s head Madeleine Mborantsuo said. “It is clear that the government has not been able to ...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s top adviser Christopher Mutsvangwa has reportedly told opposition parties that if they are not happy with the country’s military they should take up arms and fight it. Opposition parties that included the Movement for Democratic Change, and the Robert Mugabe “backed”, National Patriotic Front (NPF), claimed in March that at least 5 000 soldiers were deployed to ...

US President Donald Trump pledged stronger support for Nigeria’s fight against Boko Haram jihadists Monday, while demanding greater trade access to Africa’s largest economy. After a meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, the first leader from sub-Saharan Africa invited by Trump to the White House, Trump said he was prepared to sell helicopters to the oil-rich country in addition to ...