Wolves transfer news: Tolu Arokodare signs from Genk in £24m deal

Wolves have completed the £24m signing of Genk striker Tolu Arokodare. The 6ft 6in Nigeria international has signed a four-year deal at Molineux. Wolves are currently bottom of the Premier…

Chelsea transfer news: Nicolas Jackson joins Bayern Munich on loan with obligation to buy

Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson has joined Bayern Munich on loan, with the German champions having an obligation to buy him for £56.2m if he makes a set number of appearances.…

Yoane Wissa transfer: Newcastle sign striker from Brentford

Earlier in the window, the DR Congo international removed all association with the club from his Instagram account. Wissa told the club website: “I’m really happy to be here and…

Burkina Faso’s parliament votes to outlaw homosexual acts

Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalised homosexuality was adopted…

World Cup 2026 qualifying: African battle for spots at finals intensifies

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Mohamed Salah’s Egypt are well placed to qualify for the 2026 Fifa World Cup, but Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen and Cameroon forward Bryan Mbeumo could…

Body seen in Libyan mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader

Moe ShreifBBC Eye Investigations BBC Musa al-Sadr has been missing since 1978 Warning: Contains images some may find upsetting A computer scientist at a university in the north of England…

Ghana chief justice removed from office after probe

Ghana’s President John Mahama has fired the country’s Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo following a recommendation by an inquiry. She had been on suspension since April after complaints were lodged against…

Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says

Reuters More than 800,000 Sudanese have fled Darfur, where the landslide occurred, since conflict erupted in 2023 A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains…

Finland court sentences faction leader of Nigeria’s Ipob secessionist group

A court in Finland has sentenced a controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement to six years in prison after convicting him of terrorism-related offences. Simon Ekpa, a Finnish citizen…

Mob burns woman to death for allegedly blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad

A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria’s Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming against Prophet Muhammad, police have said. Police condemned the…

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