The TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 – hosted jointly by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – has kicked off with thrilling action, passionate crowds, and early moments of brilliance that are shaping what promises to be one of the most unforgettable editions of the tournament. For each game, CAF’s Technical Study Group awards an official…
Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has once again retained his position as Africa’s wealthiest man, topping Forbes’ Real-time Billionaires List with a net worth of $24.4 billion and ranking 88th globally. The latest ranking, released at the weekend, underscores Dangote’s unmatched dominance in Africa’s wealth hierarchy, where he stands far…
A man was hit and killed on a Southern California freeway Thursday while he was running from an immigration raid at a Home Depot, authorities said. Dylan Feik, the city manager of Monrovia, in Los Angeles County about 10 miles northeast of Pasadena, said a police officer saw the raid after the police department received…
An American woman on Tuesday was found guilty at a United Kingdom court of participating in a 2019 plot to murder a British man caught up in a bitter feud between families. Aimee Betro, 45, was extradited earlier this year from Armenia, where she was living, to face trial in the central English city of…
When Mauritania needed a hero, Ahmed Mokhtar Ahmed stepped forward — and in one unforgettable evening at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, he became more than just a striker. He became the lifeline of the Mourabitounes’ CHAN 2024 campaign, ending a frustrating scoring drought, securing their first win, and walking away with the TotalEnergies Man of…
A man in Austria has jumped on to a high-speed train after apparently being left behind at a station stop. According to local media reports, the man, an Algerian aged 24, is reported to have decided to take advantage of a scheduled stop a St Poelten, 64km (60 miles) west of the capital Vienna, for…
A California man was arrested on a 14-count federal indictment Thursday that alleges he used dating apps to con matches out of millions of dollars by posing as an investor, officials said. Christopher Earl Lloyd, 39, of Orange County, is accused of executing the scheme from April 2021 until February 2024, according to the indictment,…
Manchester United are on the verge of signing Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford with a medical understood to be imminent. Manchester United have reportedly agreed to sign Cameroon winger Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford in a deal worth an initial $87m as Ruben Amorim steps up his overhaul of the team’s misfiring attack. Mbeumo attracted Amorim’s attention…
France’s prison service said Saturday it had launched an investigation after a man escaped by smuggling himself into his cellmate’s bag as he left jail, having served his sentence. The man was captured on Monday. The 20-year-old prisoner escaped from Lyon-Corbas prison, near Lyon, southeast France, on Friday, broadcaster BFMTV reported. His cellmate had completed…
Cell C, South Africa’s fourth-largest mobile operator, is capitalising on the strengths of its larger competitors, Vodacom and MTN, to enhance its network capabilities. This is according to Cell C chief technology officer Schalk Visser, speaking to ITWeb TV yesterday in a wide-ranging interview following a recent ruling by the Advertising Regulatory Board. The board…
