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Blantyre – Malawi President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday vowed a thorough investigation after seven people were murdered by vigilantes in a vampire scare that has driven UN staffers out of the affected region. Since mid-September, vigilantes have slaughtered seven people suspected of trying to obtain and drink human blood as part of magic rituals. The vampire rumours sweeping the country’s ...

RAY WILKINS has bemoaned Chelsea’s decision to sell Nemanja Matic to Manchester United, after midfielder N’Golo Kante was injured playing for France in the international break. The perpetual midfielder, who was crowned PFA Player of the Year last season, was taken off 34 minutes into France’s 1-0 win over Bulgaria with a suspected hamstring injury. He has returned to Chelsea’s ...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out of October’s election re-run. Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission enough time to introduce reforms that will help deliver a more credible election. The Supreme Court annulled the result of the original 8 August poll after finding irregularities and declaring it “neither transparent or verifiable”. The electoral commission ...

CHELSEA forward Eden Hazard admits he’s far from 100 per cent fit despite making his return to first-team action. Hazard missed Chelsea’s opening three Premier League games of the season after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury back in July. He’s appeared in the Blues’ last seven games across all competitions, starting their latest league outing in the 1-0 defeat ...

FEARS of a volcano erupting on the Canary Islands has sparked panic as the Spanish archipelago was hit by more than 40 earthquake tremors in just 48 hours. La Palma was rocked by more than 40 seismic movements of low magnitude and intensity between 1.5 and 2.7 on the Richter scale, according to the data of the National Geographic Institute. ...

Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s cabinet reshuffle quashed opposition within his government, state media said Tuesday, as the 93-year-old leader prepares to stand again in elections next year. Mugabe stripped Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa of his role as justice minister, reassigned the finance minister and created a new cyber-security ministry in the major reshuffle late Monday. Mnangagwa is one ...

The 72-year-old returns to management four years after Bayern sacked him, but the former sporting director is sure the club will not regret it Bayern Munich have made the right decision in bringing Jupp Heynckes back to replace Carlo Ancelotti as head coach according to Matthias Sammer. Heynckes made a shock return for a third spell in charge of the ...

It turns out the Chinese have a problem with fake news too. From Facebook’s Alex Stamos to Steve Ballmer, American tech executives have sought in recent days to dispel the notion there’s a swift solution to the proliferation of spurious or insidious information on the internet, a phenomenon critics say wields an outsized and unhealthy influence on public discourse and ...

Nigeria’s national oil company said it faced no legal requirement to consult Minister of State Emmanuel Kachikwu about crude contracts, rejecting his allegations of mismanagement and confirming a split among top officials in Africa’s biggest oil and gas producer. “The law and the rules do not require a review or discussion with the minister of state or the NNPC board ...

Madam Inas Mazhar, the spokesperson for the Egyptian Football Association has stated that the Black Stars of Ghana were clearly robbed in Kamapala in the 2018 world cup qualifier. There were controversies over a last minute goal that was denied by South African referee Daniel Bennettte when Dwamena slotted home from a rebound deep into stoppage time but his effort ...