The African Football Association (CAF) has decided that the Total African Super Cup game between Morocco's Renaissance Berkane, the winners of the Confederation Cup, and Egypt's Ahly, the winner of the Champions League, will be played in Egypt on 10 (...)
While human immigrants may or may not return to their home countries, the journey back is an essential part of a migratory bird's short life. In his new exhibition of 23 mixed-media paintings and one installation, “The Return” (8-23 November at the (...)
Villagers in northeast Nigeria's Borno state on Sunday buried 43 farmers killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants while security forces searched for dozens of people who are still missing.
Roughly 30 of the men killed were also beheaded (...)
Militants have killed at least 40 people on a farm in Borno state in northeast Nigeria, three sources told Reuters on Saturday.
The attack, at Kwashebe Zamarmari in the Jere local government area, happened late morning local time as the workers were (...)
The suspension of Confederation of African Football chief Ahmad Ahmad on Monday has thrown wide open the future leadership of the regional soccer governing body, with his ban from the game coming just months before CAF's presidential (...)
Morocco claimed a 2-0 win away over Central African Republic on Tuesday to cement their place on top of Group E with ten points.
Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech opened the scoring in the 39th minute and Olympiacos striker Youssef El Arabi wrapped up the (...)
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to build an administration that reflects the diversity of the country, and is expected to announce his choices for some key White House and Cabinet positions in the next few weeks.
He got off to a quick start (...)
Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week.
The (...)
Billionaire South African businessman Patrice Motsepe entered the race to be president of the African soccer confederation on Monday.
Motsepe, who owns South African club Mamelodi Sundowns, announced he was standing and was backed by South African (...)
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona is to be kept in hospital for several more days after suffering from “confusion” caused by an unexplained “abstinence” that followed his brain surgery this week, his doctor said on Thursday.
“We all know Diego,” (...)
Diego Maradona has been admitted to hospital in Argentina with undisclosed “health problems” although it is not related to COVID-19 and his condition is not thought to be serious, his personal doctor and local media reported on Monday.
Maradona, 60, (...)
An American citizen was kidnapped near the town of Birnin Konni in southern Niger in the early hours of Tuesday morning, three security sources and a local official told Reuters.
The details of the kidnapping were not immediately clear, and no one (...)
Nigeria's top police official on Saturday ordered the immediate mobilization of all officers to ``reclaim the public space from criminal elements masquerading as protesters'' after days of peaceful demonstrations over police abuses and then violent (...)
Nigeria midfielder John Ogu has called for a boycott of their upcoming games to protest police brutality amid ongoing violence in the commercial capital Lagos.
Nigerians have been demonstrating nationwide for weeks against a police unit, the Special (...)
``Many lives have been lost'' in Nigeria's unrest, the president's office announced Friday, as the government said peaceful protests over police abuses and the military's reported killing of demonstrators were hijacked by thugs.
President Muhammadu (...)
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari spoke to the nation about the unrest that has gripped the country in recent days without making any mention of the shootings of peaceful protesters at Lekki toll plaza on Tuesday night that prompted international (...)
Lagos was under a round-the-clock curfew on Wednesday enforced by a heavy police presence, as smoke rose from a flashpoint area in Nigeria's biggest city where soldiers had opened fire on protesters the previous evening, witnesses said.
The state (...)
Nigeria's protests against police brutality turned violent Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed some 200 inmates in Benin in southern Nigeria.
Some prisoners jumped from a high fence of the institution while others were seen running away (...)
The total number of confirmed COVID-19 positive cases across the African continent has reached 1,592,549 as of Wednesday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.
The Africa CDC, a specialized healthcare agency of (...)
Egypt has three football clubs participating in the semi-finals of Africa's two biggest team championships. Powerhouses Ahly and Zamalek are taking part in the Champions League whereas Pyramids are in the second tier Confederation Cup.
After several (...)
So the rumours that have been circulating for some time now turned out to be true. Rene Weiler has officially left Ahly. The Swiss coach was growing increasingly agitated by living in Egypt away from his family because of the coronavirus and made (...)
In February Egypt's population hit 100 million. Now, just eight months later, another million has been added to the total. Amr Hassan, former rapporteur of the Egyptian National Population Council, points out that this means an average of 4,250 (...)
Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, with nearly 60% experiencing harassment, a global study showed on Sunday.
One in five girls and young women has abandoned or cut down on using a (...)
Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi could be sidelined for up to three months with an abductor injury, manager Brendan Rodgers said.
The 23-year-old Nigeria international sustained the injury in Sunday's 4-2 Premier League win over Burnley and (...)
Royal Dutch Shell is looking to slash up to 40% off the cost of producing oil and gas in a major drive to save cash so it can overhaul its business and focus more on renewable energy and power markets, sources told Reuters.
Shell's new cost-cutting (...)
