Victor Osimhen scored twice as Nigeria made short work of Mozambique at the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday, cruising into the quarter-finals with a comprehensive 4-0 victory in their last-16 tie.Ademola Lookman, a former winner of the African footballer of the year award like Osimhen, opened the scoring after 20 minutes in Fes and …
Captain Mohamed Salah scored after 124 minutes to clinch a 3-1 extra-time victory for Egypt over plucky minnows Benin in an Africa Cup of Nations last-16 thriller in Agadir on Monday. Marwan Attia put the Pharaohs ahead in the second half and Jodel Dossou equalised for the Cheetahs, taking the match to an additional 30 …
Thousands lined the streets of Cape Town Monday for the colourful annual minstrels’ parade, a cornerstone of South African culture rooted in the city’s history of slavery.Troupes of thousands of minstrels marched and danced in bright, satin costumes, many twirling umbrellas and tossing walking sticks as they were accompanied by brass bands, traditional goema beats …
Destroyed and looted in the early months of Sudan’s war, the national museum in Khartoum is now welcoming virtual visitors after months of painstaking effort to digitally recreate its collection.At the museum itself, almost nothing remains of the 100,000 artefacts it had stored since its construction in the 1950s. Only pieces too heavy for looters to …
Virtual museum preserves Sudan’s plundered heritageMon, 05 Jan 2026 13:43:23 GMT Read More »
Kenyan runner Beatrice Chebet, who won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000m at the 2024 Paris Olympics, is taking a maternity break in 2026, her agent announced on Monday.The 25-year-old is also the world record holder in both events and capped her Olympic achievement by winning gold at both distances at the world championships …
Armed gangs killed more than 30 people and kidnapped others in a raid in Nigeria in the same state where hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted late last year, police said Sunday.The gangs swept into Kasuwan Daji village, in the Kabe district of the western Niger State on Saturday and set a market ablaze, before looting …
Over 30 killed, several kidnapped in NigeriaMon, 05 Jan 2026 01:21:13 GMT Read More »
A Brahim Diaz goal sent Morocco through to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals at Tanzania’s expense on Sunday, with Cameroon now standing in the way of the hosts after the Indomitable Lions edged South Africa 2-1 in their last-16 clash.Real Madrid winger Diaz scored once in each of Morocco’s three group matches at the …
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since a fatal car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.The 36-year-old British fighter was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a busy highway linking Lagos and Ibadan in southwest Nigeria …
Joshua makes first public comments since fatal crashSun, 04 Jan 2026 14:58:14 GMT Read More »
Attacks by Sudan’s army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP Sunday.Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which in October seized the army’s last …
Armed gangs have raided a village in a north-central Nigerian state where hundreds of schoolchildren were abducted late last year, killing more than 30 people and kidnapping several others, police said Sunday.Know locally as “bandits”, the gangs invaded Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district of Niger State and set a market ablaze, before looting shops for …
Over 30 killed, several kidnapped in central NigeriaSun, 04 Jan 2026 14:12:31 GMT Read More »
