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Basketball superstar Lebron James has managed to turn a million dollar investment in a small California pizza startup called Blaze Pizza into $35 million in less than five years, a report says. Sources told ESPN that James, his business partner Maverick Carter and financial...

Former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai are headed for a run-off in Liberia’s presidential election. Nearly all the results from Tuesday’s poll have been counted, the election commission says. Mr Weah, the first African to win the Ballon...

At least five students and a security guard have been shot dead in an attack on a secondary school in Kenya. The attack was led by a student who had been suspended, the head teacher said. The boy is accused of returning to the dormitories with two accomplices. As well as killing...

A cargo plane has crashed into the sea off Ivory Coast, close to Abidjan airport, killing four people and injuring six. The wreckage of the turboprop plane, which was carrying ten people, was swept toward a beach where rescuers treated surviving crewmen on the sand. All four of...