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After Nigeria failed to win any medals in the Olympics, sporting officials are under pressure from accusations of incompetence and calls for reform over what the sports minister branded a “disastrous outcome” in Paris.While smaller nations on the continent came home with multiple medals, the Giant of Africa left empty-handed for the first time since …

Nigeria sports under scrutiny after ‘disastrous’ OlympicsTue, 13 Aug 2024 13:24:01 GMT Read More »

Scrum-half Morne van den Berg and lock Ruan Nortje will make their first starts for the Springboks against Australia in Perth after coach Rassie Erasmus on Tuesday named a team that shows 10 changes to the side that convincingly won its Rugby Championship opener in Brisbane.The only players retaining their starting places from the 33-7 victory …

South Africa make 10 changes ahead of Wallabies TestTue, 13 Aug 2024 12:43:52 GMT Read More »

The leaders of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema have been released on bail, a party spokesman said on Tuesday, after they were detained in a mass roundup ahead of a youth day rally.As many as 520 people were arrested across the country, according to a police statement, before a banned Chadema rally on Monday that …

Tanzanian opposition leaders freed after mass arrestsTue, 13 Aug 2024 10:43:49 GMT Read More »

President Mokgweetsi Masisi declared Tuesday afternoon a holiday as Botswana geared up to welcome home sprinter Letsile Tebogo and his 200m gold medal, a first for the southern African country. Botswana’s Olympic team was due to return on Tuesday with Tebogo’s gold as well as silver in the men’s 4x400m relay, boosting the country’s total Olympic …

Botswana gets half-day holiday to welcome Olympic goldTue, 13 Aug 2024 08:54:16 GMT Read More »

In a parched village in southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a farmer tramps through his dusty plot and pulls desiccated stalks and roots from the dry earth.The plot once fed Daniel Phoofolo’s family, with enough produce left over to sell. But a drought that has been biting countries across southern Africa for months has …

In dry Lesotho, hunger stalks family farmersTue, 13 Aug 2024 06:51:07 GMT Read More »

Senegalese brothers Moustapha Ndour, a Muslim, and Jean-Pierre, who is Christian, cheerfully tease each other for their respective faiths, days after remarks by the prime minister angered the Catholic Church.”He says that I’ve betrayed him,” the 67-year-old Islam convert said, smiling, side-by-side with his younger sibling outside their home on the island of Fadiouth, south …

Muslims, Christians on Senegal island preach brotherly loveTue, 13 Aug 2024 06:34:29 GMT Read More »

A Ugandan court is due Tuesday to deliver its verdict in the landmark trial of Thomas Kwoyelo, a former commander of the feared Lord’s Resistance Army militia accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.Kwoyelo, who is charged over brutal murders committed during a 20-year conflict in northern Uganda, is the first and only high …

Uganda LRA commander awaits verdict in landmark war crimes trialTue, 13 Aug 2024 06:25:31 GMT Read More »

Tanzania’s main opposition party demanded Monday the release of its top leaders who were detained in a mass roundup ahead of a banned youth day rally, a move condemned by rights activists as “troubling”.Those arrested include Chadema party chairman Freeman Mbowe and his deputy Tundu Lissu — both former presidential candidates — as well as …

Tanzania opposition denounces arrests of its leaders in mass round-upMon, 12 Aug 2024 21:25:20 GMT Read More »

The United States insisted Monday it would press ahead with convening ceasefire talks this week on the devastating conflict in Sudan, even if the Sudanese government is a no-show.War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy Mohamed …

US to convene Sudan talks, even without KhartoumMon, 12 Aug 2024 20:19:21 GMT Read More »