The decisive African Cup of Nations qualifier between Sierra Leone and Benin, which failed to take place on Tuesday after five players from Benin were declared COVID-19 positive, has been postponed to June, officials said on Wednesday.
The match in (...)
The conclusion of the African Cup of Nations qualifiers descended into farce on Tuesday as Benin refused to play their decisive qualifier in Sierra Leone after local authorities declared six of their players to be COVID-19 positive.
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Nigeria confirmed top spot in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifying group with a dramatic last-gasp 1-0 win away over neighbours Benin on Saturday, having already secured their place at the finals before kick off.
Nigeria's place at the tournament (...)
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have reported 30 Ebola virus cases and 15 related deaths so far.
The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the (...)
A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived in Robert Mugabe International Airport in Zimbabwe's capital here on early Monday morning.
The 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines are the first batch that Zimbabwe has received as it steps up (...)
Three people have died of Ebola, and another five have tested positive for the virus in southeastern Guinea, the state health agency said, the first possible resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016.
The patients (...)
Nigeria's biggest lender, Access Bank, is looking to take advantage of the new African trade agreement and make an entrance into Egypt's banking sector, the bank said in an online presentation cited by Bloomberg.
Egypt is among eight markets (...)
Following the collapse of civilian and military dictatorships across Africa three decades ago, the continent adopted a shift towards democracy. Many African countries formed multi-party political systems and drafted constitutions that limited (...)
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 (...)
All times are Cairo time (GMT+2)
Wednesday 11 November
18:00 Senegal v Guinea-Bissau
18:00 Guinea v Chad
18:00 Kenya v Comoros
18:00 Mauritania v Burundi
18:00 Cape Verde v Rwanda
21:00 Libya v Equatorial Guinea
Thursday 12 November
15:00 Uganda (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Africa loses $90 billion to corruption annually. The amount is equivalent to the sum industrial countries give to the continent in the form of development assistance and direct investment.
These findings were released in a United Nations Conference (...)
Authorities in the northern city of Makeni in Sierra Leone report that the death toll has increased to five in a protest by youths opposed to the relocation of the city's standby generator to the airport town of Lungi as of Monday morning.
The (...)
In his novel Blindness, Portuguese author José Saramago presents the violence that takes place in a city that has lost its humanity during an epidemic.
The only woman unaffected by the disease, which causes blindness, accompanies her physician (...)
Africa now has more than a half-million confirmed coronavirus cases.
The continent-wide total is now at least over 504,000 after South Africa recorded another day of more than 10,000 confirmed cases as a new global hot spot.
The true number of cases (...)
“A doctor is coming to vaccinate you against Covid-19,” a father told his three daughters as a doctor paid them an unexpected visit two weeks ago during the current coronavirus lockdown and school closures.
The young girls, all aged under 18, had (...)
Imagine that your comfort zone, your safest place on earth, your safe haven where you take out all your anxieties, worries and fears, the warmest place for you… imagine that this turns into a source of toxicity, danger and insecurity. Imagine that (...)
The African continent, with a population of over 1.2 billion, has recorded more than 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and close to 1,500 deaths. The figures may seem less threatening when compared to those in Europe and the United States. But the (...)
Egypt's exports of iron, steel and cement declined in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020 to $169m, according to a monthly Export Council for Building Materials report.
The Q1 figures indicate a 32.7% decline on the same period last year, when Q1 of 2019 (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved $500 million to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world's most impoverished countries so they can help them tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The IMF executive board approved the (...)
Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections have continued to grow across Africa, with the total number of infections reaching 15,249, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these cases, 816 have died, and 2,895 have recovered so (...)
The measures taken by China to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in an overall two per cent reduction in Chinese production, which has so far been translated into a $50 billion drop in global trade, according to figures from the UN (...)
The cronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak as well as lower oil and commodity prices along with lower demand and disruptions in global value chains will impact the Egyptian economy and the Middle East region (ME), said the International Monetary (...)
The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in addition to lower oil and commodity prices along with lower demand and disruptions in global value chains will impact the Egyptian economy and the Middle East region (ME), said the International (...)
