Mohamed Salah completed a memorable season by scoring to salvage a 1-1 Premier League draw for champions Liverpool against Crystal Palace in the final round at the weekend.It was the 29th goal of the season for the Premier League Golden Boot winner and the 32-year-old Egypt captain also claimed 18 assists.Apart from a record-equalling fourth …
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Namibia will on Wednesday hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, the government said.Colonial-era German troops massacred tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people who rebelled against their rule in the southern African country …
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Stripped naked, beaten until she could no longer walk, sexually assaulted and covered in excrement: award-winning Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire told AFP of the torture she suffered at the hands of security forces in Tanzania this week.Atuhaire, who won an International Women of Courage Award from the United States last year, was arrested on Monday …
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Former DR Congo president Joseph Kabila on Friday said he would soon visit a city occupied by the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group, branding the current government a “dictatorship” after he lost his immunity.In a rare speech streamed live on the internet, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s leader between 2001 and 2019 took aim at current …
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Rescuers on Friday pulled out all 260 mine workers who had been stuck for more than 24 hours in an underground shaft in South Africa, the mine’s operator said.The miners were trapped underground on Thursday at the Kloof gold mine, 60 kilometres (37 miles) west of Johannesburg, after a hoist used to access the shaft …
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South Africa’s government is moving towards easing its black ownership laws in the telecoms sector — a policy change that would smooth the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink to enter the local market.The directive came days after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met his US counterpart Donald Trump for tense talks on deteriorating ties between …
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A Ugandan court on Friday denied bail to veteran opposition leader Kizza Besigye despite exceeding the six-month legal limit for detention without trial.Besigye, 69, was abducted by armed men in Nairobi in November and re-emerged a few days later at a military court in Uganda, where he was charged with treason, which carries a potential …
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South Africa does not face a “white genocide” and claims that most victims of murders on farms are white are a distortion of statistics, the police minister said Friday, dismissing statements by US President Donald Trump.The genocide conspiracy is “totally unfounded and totally unsubstantiated”, Senzo Mchunu said, rejecting claims by Trump who again charged at …
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Harry Brook struck a typically rapid 58 as England piled up 565-6 before captain Ben Stokes declared on the second day of the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge on Friday.Brook, nine not out overnight, faced just 50 balls, hitting six fours and three sixes, before his dismissal prompted Stokes to call a halt …
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Brazilian Lucas Ribeiro of Mamelodi Sundowns and Congolese Fiston Mayele of Pyramids are potential match-winners in the CAF Champions League final first leg in Pretoria on Saturday.Ribeiro, 26, has scored 16 goals in the South African Premiership this season, making him odds-on favourite to win the Golden Boot award.The South American did endure a mid-season …
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