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Tiger Woods wins again to equal record USA PGA Tour’s win
Tiger Woods said Monday his latest injury comeback to win the Zozo Championship and tie the US PGA Tour's win record had ended the "most challenging" phase of his storied career.Woods held off Hideki Matsuyama at Accordia Golf Narashino...
Football
Former Benin national team captain Osseni Bachirou dies at 33
Benin captain Stephane Sessegnon has led the tributes to former Benin international and teammate Osseni Bachirou, who has died at the age of 33.
Bachirou passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Benin, with no further details of the...
Football
Eto’o’s son miss out of Cameroon’s U-17 final 21-man squad
Etienne Eto'o, the son of African football legend Samuel Eto'o, will not play at this year's U-17 World Cup in Brazil after he was left out of Cameroon coach Thomas Libiih's final 21-man squad.
Eto'o, along with Roma forward Barel...
Athletics
Kenyan marathoner Eliud Kipchoge, breaks two-hour barrier
Eliud Kipchoge has become the first ever man to break the two-hour barrier in a marathon after finishing with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.The Kenyan had boasted in run-up to Saturday's attempt that "Vienna is running and making...
Football
Five Eritrean under 20 footballers disappear in Uganda
Five players with Eritrea's under-20 national football squad have absconded in Uganda and have sought asylum, according to multiple reliable sources.
The players disappeared from their hotel and did not show up at their training ground, reports say.
The team travelled...
Football
S/Leone’s national team captain may quit after attack on home
Sierra Leone national team captain Umaru Bangura says he is considering his international future following the vandalisation of his house in Freetown by angry supporters.
The attack happened after the 31-year-old had a crucial stoppage-time penalty saved in a World Cup...
Football
AS Roma sign deal to make Nigeria it’s first African partner
Italian giants, AS Roma have signed an agreement with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to become their first African partner.
Roma won the hearts of Nigerian fans after announcing it was backing the Super Eagles at last year's World Cup in Russia...
Athletics
Ethiopia’s Dibaba to miss world championship due to injury
Ethiopia’s 1,500 metres world record holder and 2015 world champion Genzebe Dibaba has withdrawn from the world championships starting in Doha next week due to a foot injury, her management company said on Thursday.
The Ethiopian, who set a new...
Football
Ex-CAF Chief Cameroon’s Issa Hayatou set for some CAF duties
Former African head of Confederation of African Football (CAF) Mr. Issa Hayatou will help Cameroon to organize some continent’s top tournaments it will be hosting.
The Cameroon sports ministry says it has appointed Hayatou, who was FIFA’s interim president in...
Football
Samuel Eto’s son named in Cameroon Under-17 World cup squad
Samuel Eto'o's son Etienne Eto'o Pineda has been called-up to Cameroon's initial squad for the Under-17 World Cup in Brazil.
The 17-year-old is eligible to play for Spain, where he was born, but is now expected to commit to playing...
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Six killed in rebel attack on eastern DR Congo
Rebels again attacked a city at the center of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo, killing at least six...
North Africa
Court jails Sudan’s Omar al Bashir for corruption
A court in Sudan convicted former President Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption on Saturday, sentencing him to two years in a rehabilitation...
Odd World
Twins who married same man for 9 years now divorced, waiting for one man to love them both
Meet Owami and Olwethu Siko, the twins from Gauteng, South Africa who were once married to the same man, TV director Mzukiseni Mzazi when...
Nigeria News
Bosnia to release table tennis players to Nigeria
Bosnian authorities have told the BBC that two Nigerian students who were wrongfully deported to Bosnia from Croatia will soon be sent home, but...
North Africa
UN expert report unmasks Libya arms embargo violations
From buying an Irish navy boat re-registered as a "pleasure yacht" to enlisting a Canadian firm to recruit Sudanese fighters -- Libya's warring parties...