Ivory Coast manager Emerse Fae has named his 26-man squad for the Elephants' upcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against Gabon and Kenya on June 7 and June 11 respectively. The current Africa Cup of Nations champions will be eager to maintain their impressive form from Fae took charge during the AFCON tournament on home soil and has retained the core of the squad that...
Kenya duo of Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat, and Ethiopia’s Dejene Hailu Bikila have been stripped of their medals and prizes at the Beijing Half Marathon. After launching an investigation into a viral video from the April 14 race , the organising committee of the annual athletics event in Beijing found the trio guilty of deliberately slowing down doe China’s He Jie to win the race....
The 2024 World Indoor Championships came to a close on Sunday, March 3 with African athletes managing a decent run to claim a total of nine medals. Compared to the 2022 edition in Belgrade where they had an overall of 13 medals, Africa has only three gold medals, two silver and three bronze medals in Glasgow. Below are the biggest African winners at the 2024 World...
A Kenyan woman who gave birth to triplets this week has named her children after Arsenal’s Brazilian stars. After putting to bed at the Kakuma Mission Hospital in Turkana, the mother named her children Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Magalhaes. The mother of the babies, Epakan Ekaale is a resident of Loreng'esinyen village of Letea Ward in Turkana West, northern Kenya. Ekaale was not expecting...
Kenya government, World Athletics excectives, athletes, friends and family paid their final respect to late marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum in Kenya on Friday. Kiptum who died alongside his Rwandan coach, Gervais Hakizimana in a car accident on February 11, was buried in his hometown, Chepkorio in Western Kenya. Dignitaries who attended Friday’s funeral include Kenya President, William Ruto and World Athletics President, Sebastian Coe...
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