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The Olympic rings are on African soil for the first time. Africa’s first Olympics, the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, opened on October 31 and run until November 13, and they come with sports the continent has rarely seen on this stage. Four Debutants Four sports are making their Youth Olympic debut: baseball5, skateboarding, surfing […]
Drums echoed across Diamniadio on Saturday night, and a continent watched. The Senegal Youth Olympics officially began, making this the first Olympic event ever held on African soil. The opening ceremony took place at the Diamniadio Olympic Stadium near Dakar, where tens of thousands of fans packed in. A Ceremony Full of African Pride Hundreds […]
Football fans across the continent can celebrate. The AFCON two-year cycle is officially back, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) scrapped its plan to hold the tournament only once every four years. For millions who plan their lives around the Africa Cup of Nations, it is a welcome U-turn. CAF Changes Course Last December, […]
For the first time in history, the Olympic rings will fly over African soil. The Dakar Youth Games 2026 open on Saturday, 31 October, and run until 13 November, ending a long wait for the continent. Africa’s moment Senegal was awarded the Games in 2018 and later agreed with the IOC to postpone them from […]
Judo teaches balance, patience and how to get back up after a fall. For the Dakar 2026 refugee judoka competing in the men’s 55kg category, those lessons are far more than sporting clichés. They describe a life lived far from home. A first for the Youth Olympics When the Youth Olympic Games open in Senegal […]
For the first time in history, an Olympic sporting event is about to be staged on African soil. The Dakar Olympics 2026, officially the Dakar Youth Olympic Games 2026, opens on 31 October and runs until 13 November. With the opening ceremony only days away, Senegal is ready to welcome the world’s most promising young […]
For the first time in more than three decades, Formula One engines are set to roar on African soil again. The Rwanda Formula One deal, announced in Kigali on 13 October 2026, commits the country to hosting a Grand Prix under a 10-year agreement, with racing expected from the early 2030s. Whether it pays off […]
The water looked ordinary on Tuesday morning, until it was not. A swimmer was killed in a shark attack off South Africa’s east coast, in the Eastern Cape, where a 65-year-old woman was bitten while swimming with a group at Orient Beach. The Moments Before A witness told local news the woman seemed to be […]
Few African-born footballers have lit up English football as quickly as this one. Saido Berahino retires at 33, closing a career that promised far more than it finally delivered. For a generation of fans, the West Brom striker remains a symbol of raw talent and hard lessons. From Bujumbura streets to the Premier League Born […]
In less than two weeks, the Olympic movement will do something it has never done before: stage an event on African soil. The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games open on 31 October and run until 13 November, bringing roughly 2,700 young athletes to Senegal. For a continent with one of the youngest populations on earth, […]
Walk into an old stadium in Nairobi on a weekday afternoon and you might find teenagers running drills as if their families’ futures depend on it. Basketball in Africa is no longer a side hobby played on cracked concrete. It is turning into a real industry, with salaries, sponsors and television deals that reach well […]
Something shifted in Morocco this August. Women’s Football in Africa stopped being a side story and became the main event, as Cameroon won a first-ever continental title in a tournament nobody could have predicted. The final in Rabat ended an era in which a handful of famous names kept all the silverware to themselves. A […]
Ask anyone to name the home of the world’s best distance runners and the answer comes fast: Kenya and Ethiopia. But African long-distance running has never really been a two-country story, and the last decade has made that harder to ignore. Runners from Uganda, Tanzania, Eritrea, Morocco, Namibia and Lesotho are now winning medals and […]
Cape Town’s ghosts are back in the conversation, though the cricket should matter more this time. South Africa vs Australia begins in Durban on Friday, the first Test between the two sides on South African soil since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. It opens a three-match series. Eight Years On, the Noise Has Faded Back in […]
Walk into almost any big European dressing room and you will hear an African accent. Here is the uncomfortable truth behind why African football struggles to develop strong domestic leagues: the continent has become brilliant at making footballers and much weaker at keeping the value those footballers create. Morocco’s run to the 2022 World Cup […]
The countdown to Africa’s biggest football party is under way, and the opening rounds are almost done. CAF has published the AFCON PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers Matchday 1 and 2 fixtures and kick-off times, covering games from September 24 to October 6, 2026, the first stage of the journey for 48 nations. The qualifiers feature 12 […]
A 20-year-old from Potchefstroom has just taken one of cricket’s most famous records away from the Caribbean. Lhuan-dre Pretorius 188 breaks Chris Gayle T20 record, and it happened on home soil in Bloemfontein on Friday, in a CSA T20 Challenge game between the Titans and the Knights. Not in the IPL, not under the floodlights […]
HARARE: Matthews 118 Campbelle 96 West Indies Zimbabwe 2-1 win. That was the shorthand for Wednesday’s series decider, in which the West Indies Women beat Zimbabwe by 91 runs at Harare Sports Club to take the three-match ODI series. Put in to bat, the visitors made 271 for five and then bowled the hosts out […]
LAGOS: Nigeria’s Independence Day has a second headline this year, and it comes with gloves. The Chaos in the Ring Carter Efe vs Speed Darlington fight takes place tonight, October 1, at the Balmoral Hall of the Federal Palace Hotel on Victoria Island, with live coverage on SuperSport. Two Fighters With Something to Prove Balmoral […]
