Sixteen-year-old forward Ansu Fati could figure in Spain's Euro 2020 squad, national coach Robert Moreno said on Friday.
Fati, who became Barcelona's youngest ever goalscorer in August and has been one of the La Liga champions' key players in their (...)
At the request of Guinea-Bissau's authorities, IMF mission, led by Concha Verdugo-Yepes, visited Bissau from September 18 to October 1, 2019 to carry out a preliminary diagnostic of weaknesses in fiscal governance, market regulation, anti-money (...)
Senegalese club Generation Foot released a statement on Sunday confirming they will not be playing the game against Zamalek at Alexandria's Borg El-Arab Stadium.
The club said they are waiting for a decision from the Confederation of the African (...)
Ahly's assistant coach Samy Komsan has assured that the team will continue its training after returning to Egypt from Equatorial Guinea for the 2017/2018 Super Cup game scheduled for Friday against arch-rivals Zamalek.
“The team will resume its (...)
Injuries to Lionel Messi and Barcelona's other top attacking players gave an unknown 16-year-old teenager from Guinea-Bissau the rarest of chances to bring a stunned Camp Nou crowd to its feet.
Ansu Fati became the youngest player to score in (...)
Ahly squad flew early on Wednesday to Equatorial Guinea to meet Cano Sport in the capital of Malabo in the first leg of round 32 of the CAF Champions League game on Saturday.
Ahly's new Swiss coach Rene Weiler has called up 25 players to join the (...)
Africa's lesser-known soccer teams will enjoy worldwide exposure in the next week after FIFA announced that their opening World Cup qualifying matches would be live-streamed on its website and on Youtube.
World soccer's ruling body said it had (...)
Wednesday 4 September
15:00 Burundi vs Tanzania
15:00 Ethiopia vs Lesotho
15:00 Eritrea vs Namibia
16:00 South Sudan vs Equatorial Guinea
16:30 Mauritius vs Mozambique
17:30 Sao Tome vs Guinea Bissau
20:00 Liberia vs Sierra Leone
Thursday 5 (...)
With its top scorers hit by injuries, Barcelona has returned to basics.
Gone are the days when Barcelona's youth training academy produced star after star, churning out Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, and Gerard Pique, among (...)
Equatorial Guinea side Cano Sport will face Egyptian giants and record eight-time winners Ahly in the African Champions League second round after overcoming Ethiopia's Mekelle in the preliminary stage.
Cano Sport held Mekelle to a 1-1 away draw in (...)
Rights group and journalists slammed the Indonesian government's move to block internet access in its easternmost region of Papua on Friday, saying it made reporting events there difficult after violent protests during which buildings were (...)
Indonesia has cut off internet access in eastern Papua to prevent provocative posts online from fuelling violence, after protesters torched buildings, a market and a prison over mistreatment of students and perceived ethnic discrimination.
Police (...)
The timeworn, colour fading walls of Cairo's spectacular Salah El-Din Citadel are witnessing the final preparations of one of the country's biggest, most anticipated music festival. The 28th Citadel Music Festival for Music and Singing which kicks (...)
Burundi has commenced vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Wednesday.
Burundi has had no reported cases of the (...)
Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever as two experimental drugs showed survival rates of more than 90 percent in a clinical trial in Congo.
Two experimental drugs – an antibody cocktail named REGN-EB3 (...)
1-Nicolas Pepe, £72m ($87m) - Arsenal
Cote d'Ivoire winger Nicolas Pepe joined Arsenal from French side Lille in June 2019 for a club-record fee of £72 million.
2-Cedric Bakambu, £65.4m ($83m) – Beijing Guoan
The DR Congo striker joined the (...)
Egypt's mission in the 2019 All-Africa Games, hosted by the Moroccan city of Rabat on 19-31 August, will include 297 athletes participating in 24 sports, the Egyptian Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday. The 2019 African Games will be a (...)
The Conversation – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become increasingly infatuated by the negative consequences of excessive inequality. This new-found mission is laudable, but neglects the manifold ways its own policy advice contributed to (...)
Egypt's exports of glass increased 4 percent to register$ 198 million in first half of 2019 against $ 190 million in the corresponding period in 2018.
The Export Council for Building Materials, Refractory & Metallurgy Industries (ECBM) said in its (...)
The draw for the first round of African qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup was made in Cairo on Monday:
Ethiopia v Lesotho
Somalia v Zimbabwe
Eritrea v Namibia
Burundi v Tanzania
Djibouti v Eswatini
Botswana v Malawi
Gambia v Angola
Liberia v Sierra (...)
A Gambian army officer has testified that he and two colleagues shot dead journalist Deyda Hydara in 2004 on orders from then- President Yahya Jammeh, providing the first direct account of the previously unexplained killing.
Hydara, a critic of (...)
Egypt have been paired with Kenya, Togo, Comoros Island in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers during the draw conducted at the CAF headquarters in Cairo on Thursday.
While Togo and Comoros Island couldn't reach the 2019 Nations Cup, Kenya (...)
Athens-based construction firm Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) on Tuesday named Mohamed Tarek as executive vice president for North Africa.
Tarek, from Egypt, will be in charge of handling businesses, marketing, and sales in addition to (...)
Two more coaches have lost their jobs and another is expected to depart in coming days as the fallout from the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt continues for the sides who did not live up to expectations.
Paul Put was fired by Guinea on Monday despite (...)
Egypt is the fifth largest recipient of infrastructure investments by the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), said Egyptian Finance Minister Mohamed Maait said on Saturday.
Speaking at the AIIB's annual meeting in Luxembourg, (...)
