Sports and sporting events in Africa
When it comes to challenges in rugby union, it does not get much tougher than the first half of Scotland's Nations Championship campaign. Two away matches against sides ranked in the world's top five – Argentina and South Africa – plus Fiji at Murrayfield on consecutive weekends in July. Throw in 18,000 air miles and […]
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Award-winning Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at a World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States after an 11-hour immigration interview at Miami International Airport.
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Photo: Haylad / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) DR Congo's final World Cup warm-up game against Chile will take place behind closed doors amid concerns about the Ebola outbreak in the African nation. The match is scheduled to take place in the French city of Orleans on Tuesday (16:00 BST). It had been due to
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When the draw placed South Africa’s national football team in Group F for the 2026 World Cup, there was genuine optimism that this could be the tournament where Bafana Bafana finally delivered on decades of promise. Instead, the build-up has descended into an administrative nightmare that has left players, coaches, and fans questioning whether the
South Africa national football team was thrust into an embarrassing diplomatic episode as a chaotic visa and permit mix-up threatened to derail their participation in the World Cup, prompting the sports minister to publicly acknowledge that the country had been made to look foolish on the world stage. The team was initially blocked from departing
When South Africa national football team found itself unable to depart for the World Cup because players and officials were still waiting for visas, the country Sports Minister went on television and said what many were thinking: the situation was embarrassing. The footage played on news networks around the world, and across social media, the
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Senegal enters the World Cup as one of the most compelling dark horse stories in international football — a team built on collective discipline, physical intensity, and a hunger to go further than any Senegalese side has ever gone on the global stage. The Teranga Lions, as the national team is known, have navigated one
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Kenyan long-distance runner Sabastian Sawe has become the first person in history to run an official marathon in under two hours, crossing the finish line at the 2026 London Marathon in a breathtaking 1 hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds. The feat — long considered the holy grail of distance running — had only ever
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In what will be remembered as one of the greatest athletic achievements in history, Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe crossed the finish line at the London Marathon on Sunday, April 26, 2026, with a time of 1 hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds — becoming the first human being ever to officially complete a marathon in under
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For the first time in its history, the Democratic Republic of Congo has qualified for the FIFA World Cup — a victory that has electrified a nation and transformed the future of African football.
