Niger have retained 16 players from the last African Nations Cup in their squad of 23 named on Monday for this month's finals in South Africa.
They face Mali, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Group B. Their first match is on Jan. 20 (...)
CAIRO: A group of 87 irregular migrants left stranded on Sunday on the Tunisian coast near Zarzis by a people smuggler have asked the IOM for air tickets back to their native countries.
The group, which includes women and children, are mostly (...)
Qualifying campaign: Niger dramatically reached the Nations Cup after Group G rivals South Africa mistakenly interpreted CAF's qualification rules. South Africa thought that a goalless draw with Sierra Leone in their final game was enough to lift (...)
Debutants Niger will play in Group C against Gabon, Morocco and Tunisia.
The Squad:
Goalkeepers: Losseny Doumbia (Daring Club C Motema Pembe), Daouda Kassaly (Coton Sport), Rabo Saminou (Sahel SC)
Defenders:Jimmy Bulus (NA Hussein Dey), (...)
Only a few days before commemorating a year after the day when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest the confiscation of his wares and the harassment inflicted on him by a municipal officer – the germinal seed of the Arab Spring – we were (...)
Hundreds of illegal Tunisian immigrants to Europe have returned home, many of them putting an end to a sad adventure, writes Mourad Teyeb in Tunis
Waves of illegal Tunisian immigrants to Europe left the country after the January uprising that ousted (...)
Tripoli - NATO must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Qadhafi from power, Britain's most senior military officer was quoted as saying.
NATO warplanes, acting under a UN mandate to protect (...)
Gaddafi's forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, and weary residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing to halt the deadly assault
Five civilians were killed in a 30-minute (...)
Morocco: Dozens of activists injured in protests
Dozens of people were injured and more than 100 arrested in Morocco after demonstrations by protesters unconvinced by King Mohammed's concessions on political reform.
Riot police used truncheons (...)
Thanks to friendly multinational efforts, thousands of stranded Egyptians who fled the violence in Libya have been sent home onboard civil and military aircraft and ships, Amirah Ibrahim reports
Egyptians who have fled the fighting in Libya and (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry in a press statement on Tuesday announced all Egyptian citizens who fled Libya into Tunisia in recent days and weeks have been successfully evacuated.
The confirmation comes as battles between rebel forces and armed (...)
RAS JDIR, Tunisia: Thousands of Egyptian laborers escaping the turmoil in Libya streamed across the border into Tunisia on Sunday, straining the country's capacity to cope with the sudden refugee crisis.
Over 50,000 have fled over the frontier (...)
The transitional government of Tunisia should make it an urgent priority to investigate the killings of demonstrators by Tunisian security forces in early January 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
Security forces used excessive force in (...)
Following their 2-1 defeat against Esperance S Zarzis in the Tunisian league on Tuesday, the board of the Tunisian side Club African have decided to part company with coach Mourad Mahjoub and replaced him with Kais Yacoubi.
Mahjoub was heavily (...)
Iraq, Morocco deploy T-6 trainers
Hawker Beechcraft said at Farnborough Air Show today that it has delivered the first eight Beechcraft T-6A military trainers ordered by the Iraqi air force, with seven more due by year end, and has rolled out the (...)
Esperance suffered a 2-0 defeat by Olympic Beja in their season opener on Sunday.
The result spoiled Esperance's delight after beating African champions Ahli 1-0 victory in the African Champions League.
All big guns failed to secure (...)
Three of Egypt's football teams advanced to the quarter-finals of African club championships, writes Abeer Anwar
In their African Champions League second round, second leg tie on Friday, Ahli started the winning week by overpowering Kenya's Tusker (...)