WORLD

Lagos (AFP) – Nigeria’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo has ordered troops in to keep the peace in the restive state of Taraba after deadly clashes between herders and farmers. The vice-president, standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on indefinite medical leave, said Thursday the extra military battalions and police reinforcements had been sent. Police say 18 people were ...

China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be “complete, verifiable and irreversible,” Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week. “Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” a consensus document released by the ...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has said pregnant girls should be expelled from school. Here Jackie Leonard Lomboma, who runs a centre for teenage mothers in the eastern city of Morogoro, gives her reaction: I was orphaned at three months old and raised by my grandfather in Tabora village in central-western region of the country. He struggled to provide me with ...

MAN UTD GET SANCHES BOOST Renato Sanches Portugal Manchester United have been handed a boost in their their pursuit of Portugal star Renato Sanches, according to The Sun. Bayern Munich spent big on Lyon midfielder Corentin Tolisso, apparently making the teenager, who they signed from Benfica in 2016, expendable. Jose Mourinho’s side could now reap the benefit of a cut-price deal, with the cost of signing ...

QUOTE: “Grenfell Tower fire is ‘corporate manslaughter’ and arrests must be made, says LABOUR MP David Lammy ‘We should call it what it is; it’s corporate manslaughter, that’s what it is and there should be arrests made, frankly,’ the Tottenham MP said. UNQUOTE These words, uttered by Mr David Lammy, one of the few black Members of the British Parliament, ...

New research shows the way soccer players move about the field bears similarities to the manner in which particles behave under the chaotic conditions of turbulence. This discovery is one of the many made in an effort to better understand turbulence, which is a surprisingly active and pressing field. More than half a millennium after Leonardo Da Vinci first coined ...

Monaco midfielder Fabinho is “tempted” by a move to Manchester United this summer, according to reports. The 23-year-old midfielder was part of the Monaco team that won the Ligue 1 title last season and reached the semifinal of the Champions League, with Fabinho scoring 11 goals in 50 matches. In an interview with Brazilian television channel Esporte Interativo, as quoted ...

More than 140 people are feared buried in a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western China, state media say. About 40 homes were destroyed in Xinmo village in Maoxian county, after the side of a mountain collapsed at about 06:00 local time (22:00 GMT Friday). Rescue teams are frantically searching for survivors trapped beneath rocks. Pictures posted by the People’s ...

The Vice-President of the People’s Republic of China has announced his country’s preparedness to partner Ghana to undertake a massive transformation of her economy. Speaking at a State Reception for his Ghanaian counterpart, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Li Yuanchao said China stands ready to pass on knowledge, expertise and assistance to Ghana ...

Botswana has declared three days of national mourning after the death of former President Sir Ketumile Masire, aged 91. Sir Ketumile, who led the country from 1980 to 1998, is credited with being the architect of the country’s famed stability, reports the AFP news agency. He was also involved in peace initiatives across Africa, including ending Mozambique’s long civil war. ...