Steet Academy, a sports and culture non-governmental organisation on Saturday held its annual health walk with a number of corporate bodies joining over 100 deprived, needy and street children for the exercise. Dubbed ‘Vest Participation’, organisations such as the National Lottery Authority (NLA), MTN, Cal Bank, Rotary Club, Diagonal Project Africa and Accra Metropolitan Assembly […]
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As Africa celebrates its finest stars in Rabat, Morocco on Thursday night, major broadcasters will beam the live event in many parts of the world. The CAF Awards will be held in Rabat, Morocco from 20h00 local time (19h00 GMT and 21h00 Cairo time). Africa’s star footballers have been setting the world’s football stadiums alight […]
50 young girls between six to eleven years across nine underserved communities in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area will be empowered with Table-tennis skills from August 12 to September 3, 2022. The 3rd edition of the training tagged, ‘Awaken the Giant, She Can 3.0’, is being organised for young girls by the Nigeria Table Tennis […]
Cape Town — Pravin Gordhan Accepts Solidarity’s Offer to Assist With Eskom Critical Skills Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has accepted the offer from union Solidarity – an offer made 10 years ago – to assist Eskom with a list of people with critical skills needed by Eskom to keep the lights on in […]
The members of CAF’s Technical Study Group (TSG) have pointed to the increase of teams in the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations from eight to 12 as the key to the considerable increase in the level and standard of the tournament. TSG members Clémentine Touré from Côte d’Ivoire, Mercy Tagoe from Ghana and Jacqui […]
With less than 48 hours to the highly-anticipated CAF Awards 2022, CAF has revealed the top three (3) for all the women and men categories ahead of the much-awaited Awards Gala on Thursday, 21 July 2022, in Rabat, Morocco. The Awards will be held in Rabat, Morocco on 21 July 2022 at 20h00 local time. […]
Eugene — Just as he predicted, it ended up to be a fast race where a World Lead was set, but Timothy Cheruiyot is not shocked with the result. Cheruiyot surrendered the world title to Briton Jack Wightman who won gold in style after clocking fastest time this season (3:29.23) toppling Kenyan Abel Kipsang, who […]
Despite their failure to qualify for the finals of the 2022 Africa Women Nations Cup in Morocco, Super Falcons players have declared that they are still the best team in Africa. It would be recalled that the defending champions bowed out gallantly with pride, losing 4-5 on penalties to hosts Morocco, after playing most part […]
Nairobi — Timothy Cheruiyot’s bid to defend his World title ended in agony as he finished sixth in Wednesday morning’s final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, losing out to Briton Jake Wightman. Wightman became the first Briton to win the 1500m race since 1983, crossing the finish line in 3:29.23 ahead of Olympic […]
This weekend’s Women’s African Football Championship (Wafcon) final between Morocco and South Africa in Morocco marks a new era. With it women’s football in Africa has reached a second phase of its development. If the first phase was about the rise of a few superpowers, led by Nigeria, then the new phase is about a […]
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has congratulated the Egyptian national team on claiming their eighth title of the African Men’s Handball Championship, hosted by Egypt. In a cable of greetings to the team, Sisi hailed as “heroic” the performance shown by the Pharaohs throughout the tournament. The president also praised the successive achievements made by […]
Cape Town — You Beauties! Banyana Banyana Through to WAFCON Final! Coach Desiree Ellis’s charges, Banyana Banyana, have made it to their first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations final when they beat Zambia 1-0 in Casablanca, Morocco on July 18. A stoppage time penalty was converted by Linda Motlhalo as the team fought hard to beat the […]
Despite being reduced to nine players, the Falcons missed out on a final ticket, losing on penalties to Morocco’s Lionesses The Falcons proved why they are super on the African continent that even after being reduced to nine, they fought and found a way to take host Morocco to penalties before losing 5-4 in the […]
Nairobi — Conseslus Kipruto’s bid to defend his steeplechase World title wasn’t successful as Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali beat the Kenyan charge again, winning gold as the defending champion settled for bronze. El Bakkali who beat the Kenyans to the Olympic title last season made it successive major championship victories as he glided to gold […]
Nairobi — Faith Kipyegon underscored her status as the greatest 1500m athlete of all time with an imperious performance to clinch Kenya’s first gold medal at the World Championships in Oregon when she obliterated the field to win the race in a time of 3:52.96. Kipyegon blazed down Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, clocking 3:54.52 for bronze […]
Ghanaian midfielder Vincent Kofi Adams has signed for Bugesera FC on a two-year deal. Adams moves as a free agent from Mukura Victory where he played in the past two seasons. The 22-year-old central midfielder is expected to bring stability to the team as they bid to finish in the top half of the table. […]
He and his Zambia team were so close, but coach Bruce Mwape’s big regret is that they will not return to Rabat to play in the amazing Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Saturday’s WAFCON final. Zambia conceded an injury time penalty, which ultimately proved costly and led to heartbreaking defeat to South Africa’s Banyana Banyana in […]
Hosts Morocco stunned ten-woman Nigeria 5-4 on penalties to book their place in the final of the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in their history at the Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay-Abdellah on Monday. The Atlas Lionesses reached the final after beating the Super Falcons in a post-match penalty shootout following […]