Teacher' carried Somalia plane bomb

An Islamic school teacher has been identified as the man who carried the bomb which caused a hole in the fuselage of a commercial flight from Somalia to Djibouti on 2 February, the associated Press news agency reports. 

Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh was blown out of the Daallo Airlines-owned Airbus 321, when the bomb detonated soon after takeoff from Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, it reports.

Some intelligence officials believe that Mr Borleh, who hailed from Somalia's breakaway state of Somaliland, had knowingly carried the bomb, but this has not been conclusively established, AP adds.

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the explosion, but it did not identify the bombers. 

No-one was killed in the blast, which happened about 15 minutes into the flight, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.

The plane an emergency landing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. 

Kenyan teacher in world's top 10

A Kenyan teacher has reached the top 10 finalists for a global teaching prize. Ayub Mohamud, who teaches business at a high school in Eastleigh, a suburb of the capital, Nairobi, is competing to become the world's most exceptional teachers. Organisers say Mr Mohamud, who is passionate about innovation, design and creativity, tries to equip students with the skills to become successful social entrepreneurs. He is active in attempting to combat extremism and prevent radicalisation on both local and national levels, they added. Mr Mohamud is selected alongside teachers from the US, UK, Australia, India and Finland.  The winner will receive a prize of a $1m at an awards ceremony in March.

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Brazil court freezes footballer Neymar's assets

Barcelona superstar Neymar's yacht, private jet, bank accounts and properties in six Brazilian cities have been blocked by Brazilian tax authorities over allegations of tax evasion from 2011 to 2013. The charges levied against Neymar, his family and related businesses are those of deliberate evasion.

A Sao Paulo federal court ignored Neymar's claims where he denied any wrongdoing, and started issuing warrants to freeze his assets last week.

However, Neymar is not likely to receive a jail term if he is to pay what Brazilian tax auditors say he owes. They demand he pay 63.6 million reias ($16m) Iagaro Jung Martins, an auditor with Brazil's federal tax agency told reporters.

This is not the first instance of the 23-year-old superstar's run in with the law. On 2 February this year, Neymar and his father were questioned for over three hours in a court in Madrid over his transfer from Brazilian club Santos to Barcelona.
Neymar's fellow Barcelona star Lionel Messi and Messi's father will also face tax fraud allegations in a Barcelona court on 31 May.

'Protect our whisky', Scotland tells Mozambique

Scotland has urged officials in Mozambique to grant legal protection on imports of Scotch whisky.
Scottish Secretary Mr Mundell asked Mozambique's minister of industry to grant the recognition, which would mean only whisky that has been made in Scotland could legally be sold as Scotch in the country.
Exports of whisky to Mozambique have risen strongly in recent years.
He said that Scotland's whisky producers needed to be "protected from imitators, and consumers in Mozambique and elsewhere should be able to have confidence that what they are drinking is the real thing".
Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) chief executive David Frost said: "It is great to see that Scotch Whisky is in such demand in Mozambique and we expect its popularity to increase as the country's economy grows.
"We have the same positive outlook for many African countries with a growing-middle class seeking out high-quality imported products such as Scotch."

Buhari sacks his budget director

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the director general of the government's budget office, Yahaya Gusau, over his handling of the current budget proposal.
He has been in the job for six months.
This comes after several questions being raised over the 2016 budget which the president announced at the end of last year.
There have been accusations that some ministries inflated their budget allocations. Mr Gusau has been replaced by Tijjani Abdullahi.
Sorting out Nigeria’s $31bn budget is a gargantuan task, but the budget chief was sacked after typographical errors and other anomalies were spotted.
Some civil servants, dubbed the “budget mafia”, are accused of inflating the budget for their ministries, things that should have been spotted before the budget was submitted to the parliament in December.
Part of the problem was that the budget was rushed as it had to be submitted before 2016 – and some ministries filed late.
It has already been recalled once to amend some obvious errors, so this is all an embarrassment for President Muhammadu Buhari.
MPs set a deadline of 25 February to pass it but given the problems it is not likely to happen till March.
Nigeria’s parliament has to scrutinise and pass the budget before it can be implemented.

Sierra Leone's Kargbo accused of match-fixing

The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) says it has uncovered evidence of match-fixing by former Sierra Leone international Ibrahim Kargbo .It is alleged that in August 2009 Kargbo, then a Willem II player, tried to fix a match against FC Utrecht.

The KNVB also said Kargbo had tried to fix the result of a benefit match between Willem II and Sierra Leone in 2009.

Kargbo was suspended by the Sierra Leone Football Association in 2014 over match-fixing allegations.

Sierra Leone's footballer Ibrahim Kargbo has denied allegations by the Dutch Football Association that he was involved in match-fixing in Holland 

Kargbo, told Nick Cavell that it's unbelievable to accuse him of fixing a match in a club that he has been a best player for three years. 

"It's not in my style. It'ss not in my football," he said.

"For me, it's a lot of stress. It has killed my career. I have been having a sleepless night for something I knew nothing about," Kargbo added.

He also denied any knowledge of match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal, with whom he was accused of  collaborating to fix matches.

Zimbabwe impounds plane 'with body and money'

Zimbabwe has seized a US-registered cargo plane which had a dead body and large sums of South African currency on board, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. Staff at the international airport in the capital, Harare, noticed blood dripping from the aircraft when it had stopped to refuel while flying from Germany to South Africa, it adds. 

South Africa's FIn24 news site quotes Zimbabwe's Civil Aviation Authority head, David Chawota, as saying the cargo on the plane belonged to South Africa's central bank. 

“The police are now handling the issue and the plane, which is owned by Western Global Airlines, has been grounded at Harare International Airport since Sunday,” he added, Fin24 reports.

The foreign crew of the US-registered cargo jet impounded at Zimbabwe's main airport did not know there was someone else on the plane, the Associated Press news agency quotes an unnamed police officer as saying. 

It appears from photos on social media that the dead person, suspected to be a stowaway, had sneaked into the plane's landing gear which severed his arm when it contracted, causing blood to splatter onto the fuselage and arousing suspicion of the ground crew when the flight landed in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, AP reports.

The crew included two Americans, a South African and a Pakistani, Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper reports.