The United Nations special representative to South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, has appealed for leaders in the country to order their forces to lay down their arms.

The UN again urges rival forces in South Sudan to lay down their arms, and says the first UN reinforcements should arrive in the next 48 hours.

Senegal striker Papiss Cisse adds to two goals from Loic Remy as they help Newcastle to a 5-1 over nine-man Stoke.

At least six peacekeepers from Chad are killed in clashes in the Central African Republic, the African Union force there says.

The leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia hold talks with South Sudan's president in a bid to halt violence the UN says has killed more than a thousand people.

Five people are hurt by a bomb near a bus in Egypt's capital, Cairo, as some 16 Muslim Brotherhood members are held on terrorism charges.

The entire contents of a former prep school in Yorkshire is being shipped out to a primary school in Africa.