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For the last 12 years, around four days a week, when the light appears over the skies of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Tsehay Wulo, 55, ascends to Entoto, a forested mountain north of the capital. Throughout the week, hundreds of impoverished young and old women roam the eucalyptus forest which stands 3,200 meters (nearly 10,500 feet) above the sea ...

British Airways will today suspend around 36,000 of its 45,000 staff as coronavirus left the airline on its knees. The airline has reached a broad deal with the Unite union that will include the suspension of 80 per cent of its cabin crew, ground staff, engineers and those working at the head office in Harmondsworth, near Heathrow. The furloughed UK staff are ...

Manchester United have signed some great players, but they have missed out on some even greater ones, writes Sky Sports News’ Kaveh Solhekol. If they had bought every player on this list, they would probably have won the title and the Champions League every year, and that’s not an over exaggeration. These are the 50 best players that got away – and ...

Chairman Daniel Levy is one of 550 non-playing staff at Tottenham taking a pay cut to “protect jobs” amid the coronavirus crisis. Spurs have also followed Newcastle in furloughing – a scheme in which an employee does not work but gets 80 per cent of their salary paid for the next two months by the government – some staff “where ...

Xavi believes he is ready to manage Barcelona but insists there cannot be any “toxicity” in the dressing room. The midfielder spent the majority of his playing career with Barcelona, from 1998 to 2015, playing more than 700 matches. During his time at the club he won eight La Liga titles and lifted four Champions League trophies and also played ...

Jose Mourinho and his Tottenham Hotspur camp have decided to conduct live training video sessions with the players, as social distancing has been advised by the Premier League during the coronavirus pandemic. The league is set to resume on April 30 and clubs are trying to ensure that all players stay fit while home. The players have been working from ...

According to official statistics, China has defeated the coronavirus. Over the last five days, health authorities have reported only one new locally transmitted case of Covid-19 – a patient in Guangdong province infected by someone travelling from abroad. In Wuhan, the centre of the outbreak and the country’s worst-hit area, officials on Monday reported a fifth day without new cases. The figures ...

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has stunned his critics by announcing that he will not run for a third term, putting pressure on other regional leaders to follow his example, writes the BBC Newsday’s James Copnall from the main city, Abidjan. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: an African politician comes to power, likes his time in office, ...

Universities are turning to online teaching to ensure that students complete their studies as scheduled, after face-to-face lessons were suspended following cases of Coronavirus in the country. The University of Nairobi has asked postgraduate students to continue engaging their supervisors. The institution suspended face-to-face teaching yesterday, March 16, 2020. “We intend to review our work flow with a view to ...

There are now more than 400 known cases of Coronavirus across the continent, with nations imposing a range of measures to try to prevent the spread. While many countries are closing schools, banning large gatherings and shutting borders, in Kenya telecom companies have slashed the cost of mobile money transfers in a bid to encourage people to go cashless. An ...