Four years after the military seized power, Guineans will finally vote Sunday on a new draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the country’s junta leader to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.The vote, which Guineans and the international community have been awaiting for years, opens …
Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi added the world crown to his laurels with a hard-fought victory in the men’s 800 metres on Saturday.Wanyonyi timed a championship record of 1min 41.86sec for gold in Tokyo, just four hundredths of a second ahead of Algeria’s fast-finishing Djamel Sedjati.Defending champion Marco Arop of Canada had to settle for …
Kenya’s Wanyonyi holds off Sedjati for world 800m goldSat, 20 Sep 2025 14:04:52 GMT Read More »
Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet produced a devastating burst of speed to edge Kenyan teammate Faith Kipyegon for victory in the women’s 5,000m on Saturday and secure a world championships double gold.Chebet, who last weekend won the 10,000m, clocked 14min 54.36sec for victory, depriving Kipyegon of her own 1,500/5,000m double bid by 0.71sec.It was a remarkable …
Chebet outsprints Kipyegon to win 5,000m for world doubleSat, 20 Sep 2025 13:08:23 GMT Read More »
Some are confident in a new direction for their country while others fear continued restrictions on freedoms: In Guinea, where people will cast ballots Sunday on a new constitution, voters are divided.The draft constitution, if approved, is in theory meant to return the west African nation of 14.5 million to constitutional order following four years …
South Africa’s Democratic Alliance, the opposition party in a fragile coalition with the African National Congress, on Saturday named veteran activist Helen Zille to lead its campaign to take country’s main city Johannesburg from the ANC in elections next year.Local elections scheduled to be held between November 2026 and January 2027 loom as a major …
Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel is expecting a tough challenge from Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar when the cycling Road World Championships begin in Kigali on Sunday with the men’s and women’s time-trials.Belgian Evenepoel is the reigning champion in the discipline having also triumphed in 2023.And while time-trialling is not Pogacar’s main strength, he …
Malawi’s ruling party claimed on Friday that it had discovered irregularities in the vote count in nearly half the country’s districts after this week’s elections, while police announced the arrests of eight data clerks for allegedly tampering with results.The 2019 presidential election was nullified because of widespread irregularities and officials in the largely poor southern …
Malawi ruling party claims tampering in vote countFri, 19 Sep 2025 23:45:55 GMT Read More »
Berlin Marathon favourite Sabastian Sawe goes into Sunday’s race vowing to honour the legacy of Kenyan countrymen Eliud Kipchoge and Kelvin Kiptum, the two fastest men in history.Running just his third marathon on Sunday, the 29-year-old pledged to carry the torch passed on from his illustrious compatriots.Speaking with AFP days out from the race, Sawe …
Top Malawi broadcasters halted Friday live dashboards of results from this week’s general elections, prompting a leading media rights group to condemn pressure on journalists. Observers said President Lazarus Chakwera faced losing office after Tuesday’s vote in the economically battered southern African country, but the election authority was yet to release any official figures three days …
Malawi broadcasters halt vote dashboard in results vacuumFri, 19 Sep 2025 19:00:43 GMT Read More »
Surrounded by incubators, a red tube snaking into her tiny nose, four-day-old Grace-Ella is being fed donated breastmilk at the only facility in Kenya that offers the life-giving service.The breastmilk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital is one of very few across sub-Saharan Africa, and is especially helpful for premature babies, of which roughly 134,000 are …
Kenya’s only breastmilk bank, lifeline for premature babiesFri, 19 Sep 2025 17:32:57 GMT Read More »
