Africa should see the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March from the global COVAX effort aimed at helping lower-income countries obtain the shots, the World Health Organization's Africa chief said Thursday, as deaths on the continent are rapidly (...)
The draw of the 2020/21 Total CAF Confederation Cup Additional 2nd Preliminary Round kicks off at 12:00 GMT (14:00 Cairo Local Time).
Enyimba FC (Nigeria) vs. Bloemfontein Celtic / Rivers UTD
FC Platinum (Zimbabwe) vs. ASC Jaraaf (Senegal)
Raja CA (...)
Trade exchange between Egypt and Zambia reached $250 million during 2019, Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea said during Egyptian-Zambian Business Forum.
She noted that organizing Egyptian-Zambian Business Forum at the present time is a (...)
Zambia national team coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has been charged with sexual assault on Friday following an incident involving a waitress in the South African coastal city of Port Elizabeth.
South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) (...)
Turkey's lira hit a record low on Monday on growing concerns over policy and geopolitical issues, with other emerging markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa also retreating as a second wave of coronavirus cases culled demand for risk-linked (...)
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 (...)
The United Nations marked 1960 as the Year of Africa when 17 African countries gained independence in the largest wave to get rid of European colonialism since the 15th century.
However, none of the 17 countries were in a celebratory mood to mark 60 (...)
Raino Bolz quickly diversified when his tourism business in South Africa's winelands crashed to a halt in March because of the coronavirus pandemic. He sold a minibus _ useless without tourists to ferry around _ and bought a herd of pregnant (...)
The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad - a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild polio virus.
In a statement this week, (...)
أعلن الاتحاد الزامبي لكرة القدم، إلغاء مسابقة الدوري المحلي، على الرغم من استئناف المسابقة قبل أسابيع قليلة عقب توقف نتيجة انتشار جائحة كورونا.
وكان الدوري قد عاد لاستنئافه يوم 18 يوليو الجاري، بعد توقفه بسبب جائحة كورونا.
ووفقا لموقع "zambia (...)
أعلن الاتحاد الزامبي لكرة القدم، إلغاء مسابقة الدوري المحلي، على الرغم من استئناف المسابقة قبل أسابيع قليلة عقب توقف نتيجة انتشار جائحة كورونا.
وكان الدوري قد عاد لاستنئافه يوم 18 يوليو الجاري، بعد توقفه بسبب جائحة كورونا.
ووفقا لموقع "zambia (...)
More than 50 players and staff members at soccer clubs in Zambia's top flight have tested positive for COVID-19 in an outbreak that the national association says was caused by teams failing to properly implement measures to stop its spread, leading (...)
The return of the Zambian Super League on Saturday has been put on hold after leaders Forest Rangers revealed that 28 players and staff had tested positive for COVID-19.
Rangers said on Saturday morning, hours before the scheduled re-start of the (...)
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived.
Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 (...)
Egypt's exports of iron, steel, and cement decreased 41.1 percent in the first five months 2020 to record $254 million compared to $431 million in the same period of 2019, according to a monthly Export Council for Building Materials report.
The (...)
Statues and other monuments have always been powerful symbols expressing people's sentiments and aspirations and at times their desire for immortality. Some have been crafted to glorify figures from official history or have been of people considered (...)
Egypt has sent Congo and Zambia medical supplies, disinfectants, drugs and protective suits to help in the fight against coronavirus
The military jet loaded with the supplies was received Monday by Congolese Deputy Foreign Minister Raymond Tshibanda (...)
African countries have adopted different measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of the continent's countries have enforced traditional measures, such as the closure of schools, imposing curfews and banning religious, (...)
Ahmad Ahmad, head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), stated recently that he was in touch with all African confederations amid the coronavirus crisis to determine if and when African sports activities which have been suspended over the (...)
Egypt has conducted the highest number of COVID-19 clinical trials in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, according to Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
In a statement on Tuesday, Abdel Ghaffar (...)
Apple Inc on Tuesday said it would expand its App Store, Apple Music and other services to dozens of new markets in Africa, the Middle East and beyond in the biggest geographical expansion of its services in almost a decade, Reuters reported.
Apple (...)
Former president of Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Hani Abu Rida hinted before that Egypt can organise the 2030 FIFA World Cup. Abdelmounaïm Bah, Acting General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), also said that he hoped (...)
Some African countries could see a peak in coronavirus cases in the coming weeks and testing should be urgently increased in the region, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
"During the last four days we can see that the numbers (...)
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 coronavirus outbreak may present opportunities for Egypt's engineering sector to boost its products in certain markets, according to the Engineering Export Council of Egypt (EEC). The most important of these markets are Africa, the Middle East, (...)
