The body of a man has been found at the home of Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny in Egypt.

Elneny's father, Nasser, discovered the body when he stopped at the villa in the city of Mahalla al-Kubra, which is about 100km (62 miles) north of Cairo.

The incident was reported to police, who say the dead man had been attempting to steal electrical cables.

It is believed he was electrocuted during the theft.

The house was a new property that has been recently handed over by the Elneny family to a charity to be used as an office.

Elneny, who has returned to Arsenal after being on international duty with Egypt during the Africa Cup of Nations, was informed about the incident over the phone.

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Officials in Ethiopia hope to plant 200 million trees in a single day in what they hope will be a world record.

The current World Record for planting trees in a single day is held by India, which used 800,000 volunteers to plant more than 50 million trees in 2016.

Ethiopia's Minister of Innovation and Technology Getahun Mekuria has been tweeting about the progress, saying they had passed the 100 million mark as of 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT):

Five protesters in Sudan's North Kordofan state were shot dead at a rally on Monday, a doctors' committee linked to the protest says.

According to Reuters, at least two of the victims are reported to be high school students who were demonstrating on the streets of the state capital, El Obeid.

Anti-government protests have been taking place across Sudan since December, leading to the removal of President Omar al-Bashir in April.

On Saturday, the prosecutor's office said at least eight military officers would be charged with crimes against humanity for killing 87 protesters.

Doctors linked to the opposition say almost 130 died when security forces opened fire on protesters on 3 June.

The Duchess of Sussex is guest editing British Vogue's September issue, focusing on women who "break barriers".

The cover features 15 women, including Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Somali boxer Ramla Ali and South Sudanese model Adut Akech.

Meghan chose not to put herself on the cover, the magazine's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said, as she felt it would be a "boastful thing to do".

The duchess said she hoped people would be as inspired as she was by the women featured in the magazine.

The edition, entitled Forces For Change, highlights "trailblazing change makers, united by their fearlessness in breaking barriers", Buckingham Palace said.

Meghan, who gave birth to her first child in May, said she had spent the last seven months working on the project "to take the year's most-read fashion issue and steer its focus to the values, causes and people making impact in the world today".

She added: "Through this lens I hope you'll feel the strength of the collective in the diverse selection of women chosen for the cover as well as the team of support I called upon within the issue to help bring this to light."

The issue includes a conversation between Meghan and former US First Lady Michelle Obama.

Enninful, the editor-in-chief, said Meghan was the first person to guest edit the September issue - traditionally considered the most important issue of the year.

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The Nigerian government says it has banned a Shia religious movement whose elderly leader is due to appear in court today.

Regular protests by members of the pro-Iran Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), who are demanding the release of their leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, turned violent last week.

A senior policeman and a journalist were shot dead in the chaos. The group says 20 of its supporters also died.

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In a series of tweets on Sunday evening, the Nigerian presidency confirmed the ban on IMN, saying it wasn't stopping the country's Shia minority from practicing their faith, but rather wanted to discourage violence and the destruction of public property. It followed the approval of a government court order made on Friday which no representative for IMN has seen.

The ban has been labelled "a huge joke" by IMN, which added in a statement that it was consulting with lawyers.

Sheikh Zakzaky's lawyers are requesting his release so he can receive medical treatment abroad. They say he's suffered two minor strokes since being in detention, and that his vision is deteriorating.

Human rights groups have condemned the police’s violent response to the protests. A federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release of Sheikh Zakzaky in 2016, but a state court has ignored the ruling.

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A patient being treated for Ebola has escaped from a treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities are quoted as saying.

News website Actualité quotes DR Congo’s health ministry as saying that a person who tested positive for the virus escaped from the Ebola treatment centre in Lubero, in North Kivu province, and is believed to have returned to the community.

According to the website, the patient tested positive for Ebola on 25 July and medical teams are "attempting to trace the individual".

The outbreak has killed more than 1,700 people over the past year and last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak an international health emergency.

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A US congressional delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi is visiting Ghana.

They will hold high-level discussions with President Nana Akufo-Addo and also deliver an address to the Ghanaian parliament on Wednesday.

The trip coincides with the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans landing in America, and the members of Congress plan to pay their respects at Cape Coast and Elmina Castles, and the "Door of No Return" in observance of the anniversary.

In a tweet posted from Ghana, Ms Pelosi also thanked Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings, for "fearlessly speaking the truth". Over the weekend, she said President Donald Trump's criticism of Mr Cummings was racist after he described the congressman's majority-black district of Maryland as a "rodent-infested mess", external.

Mayeni Jones
BBC News, Lagos

The Nigerian leader of a Shia Muslim sect is due in court on Monday.

Ibraheem Zakzaky was arrested in 2015 on charges of attempted murder and disrupting the peace, after the military clashed with his supporters in the northern state of Kaduna.

Today’s hearing is part of a protracted legal wrangle over his fate.

Sheikh Zakzaky's lawyers are requesting his release so he can receive medical treatment abroad. His supporters say he's suffered two minor strokes since being in detention, and that his vision is deteriorating.

They have been holding regular protests in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, which often end in violence. Last week, a senior policeman and a journalist were killed. The sect said 20 of their supporters also died.

In 2016, a judicial inquiry found that the army had killed more than 300 Shia Muslims during clashes in the north.

The same year, a federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release of Sheikh Zakzaky but a state court has ignored the ruling.

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• Investigation into 2015 Shia deaths
• Meeting Sheikh Zakzaky

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At least 65 people have lost their lives after suspected Boko Haram militants opened fire on a funeral in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno.

Gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in vans at the village near the state capital, Maiduguri, on Saturday, eyewitnesses say.

A number of mourners were reportedly killed straight away, while others died trying to chase off the attackers.

There has been an increase in Islamist attacks across the region.

Local government official Muhammed Bulama said he thought the latest attack was in revenge for the killing of 11 Boko Haram fighters by the villagers two weeks ago.

Agence France Presse journalists at the scene said they saw burnt-out homes, and relatives collecting the bodies of those who were killed.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack, and ordered the air force and army to hunt down those who carried it out, Reuters reports.

Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and more than two million displaced over the past decade of conflict.

Boko Haram, loosely translated, means "Western education is banned" and promotes a version of Islam that forbids Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with the West. The group is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

An ambitious campaign to plant 200 million saplings in a day is under way in Ethiopia. It would be a world record if accomplished.

It is part of the Green Legacy Initiative by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who has dug in with a few seedlings of his own in ArbaMinch, southern Ethiopia, on Monday morning.

Mr Abiy started the campaign to create awareness about the importance of fighting environmental degradation in the country and public offices in the capital, Addis Ababa, have been shut down for civil servants to take part in the campaign.

The UN says Ethiopia’s forest coverage has fallen from 35% of the total land in the early 20th Century to a little above 4% in the 2000s. The country has also faced severe droughts in recent years.

Ethiopia, a country of 100 million people, would need each citizen to plant at least two seedlings, to make the record.

The current World Record for planting trees in a single day is held by India, which used 800,000 volunteers to plant more than 50 million trees in 2016.

Meanwhile, the record for the highest number of trees planted in a day by an individual, according to the Guiness Book of Records, external, is held by Ken Chaplin of Canada who planted 15,170 red pine seedlings in 2001.

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