APRNEWS - Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah have been nominated for the prestigious Ballon d’Or football trophy that is awarded to the best player in the world by France Football magazine.

Salah and Mane were nominated after their record breaking season with English club side, Liverpool that saw them reach the Champions League final that they lost to Real Madrid.

APRNEWS - Maurice Kamto leader of Cameroon opposition party Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon, MRC, is the talk of town as vote counting continues in the central African country.

APRNEWS - Neymar may have grabbed the headlines with a hat-trick as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Red Star Belgrade in their midweek Champions League match, but Angel Di Maria is proving vital to the French giants’ strong start to the season.

APRNEWS - Zimbabwe is vaccinating people living in urban areas as it struggles to contain a cholera outbreak which has left 49 people dead and infected thousands more.

APRNEWS - About 320 people were injured when a packed train travelling from South Africa’s business hub Johannesburg to the capital Pretoria crashed into the back of a stationary train, Metrorail authorities said on Friday.

APRNEWS - DR Congo surgeon Denis Mukwege wins 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Denis Mukwege has been named a joint winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. The man known as the rape surgeon was awarded along with Nadia Murad for their efforts to end sexual violence as weapon of war.

APRNEWS - The World Bank may suspend funding to Tanzania after expressing concerns about new legislation which would punish anyone who questions official statistics.

The global lending institution says the law would undermine the production of useful and high quality data.

APRNEWS - Chairman of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, the country’s main elections body, Enow Abrams Egbe, has asked displaced people and refugees in Nigeria to return to their respective areas to participate in upcoming presidential elections.

APRNEWS - Unidentified fighters have killed more than 1,000 civilians in Beni territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a series of massacres beginning four years ago, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 22, 2018, fighters killed 17 people in Beni town, bringing the number of civilians killed this year to at least 235.

Reuters - Iran said the missile attack it launched in Syria on Monday had killed 40 “top leaders” of Islamic State, and that intelligence for the operation had been provided by its elite Quds Force.