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Asante Kotoko produced a surprise 3-2 victory over Coton Sport in the first leg of their CAF Confederation Cup playoff in Cameroon on Sunday. The victory puts the Porcupine Warriors in a good position to reach the knockout stage of the competition for the first time since 2008. Emmanuel Gyamfi was put through and the speedster raced forward before slotting ...

Several Ghanaians living in Auchi, a community in Edo state, Nigeria, have reportedly fled their homes over attacks on them by some Nigerians. This follows the death of a Nigerian woman which was been attributed to her Ghanaian husband. Rev. Mawutor Bonuade, the Head Pastor of the Thorns of Word and Power Ministries and a Ghanaian living in Nigeria told ...

Egyptian Mohamed Salah on Tuesday won the 2018 CAF Player of the Year award at a colourful ceremony held in Dakar, Senegal. With the win, the Liverpool superstar retains the award he won last year to become the first North African to win the prestigious diadem back-to-back. Salah, who had earlier claimed the 2018 BBC African Footballer of the Year ...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced Tuesday that Egypt will host the 2019 African Cup of nations. Ahead of the announcement, an Egyptian delegation led by Football Federation President Hany Abo Rida arrived on Monday in Dakar, Senegal capital, to attend CAF Executive Committee meeting. The Egyptian delegation includes Presentation Sports CEO, Mohamed Kamel, and Football Federation board member, ...

Two soldiers who took part in Monday’s attempted coup in Gabon have been killed, the president’s office says. They were shot dead after security officers stormed the national radio building which they had taken over. Three others are under arrest. The junior officers claimed they seized power “to restore democracy” in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader’s family has ruled ...

Juniors officers say they have seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader’s family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a coup “to restore democracy”. They took control of the national radio station at 04:30 local time (03:30 GMT) to read a short statement announcing a “National Restoration Council”. Tanks and ...

A French court has ruled that a former militant suspected of war crimes will be transferred to the international war crimes court in The Hague. Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, a “senior leader” of the Central African Republic’s Anti-Balaka militia was arrested in France in the middle of December. The militia is said to have carried out systematic attacks on the country’s Muslim ...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has told the police to reduce the force used against anti-government demonstrators, as the UN called for a probe into deaths during the protests. In a meeting with top police officers in Khartoum on Sunday, al-Bashir instructed them to refrain from using excessive force against protesters. “We want to maintain security and we want the police ...

Most mobile internet connections in Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa were down on Monday, residents said, the day after a presidential election that both camps suggested they had won. Residents of the eastern city of Goma also said that their internet connections were slow or down completely. Government officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Congolese voted in ...

Nearly 1,600 kilometres in 54 days, alone and without assistance. A first accomplishment by an American adventurer, Colin O’Brady, who trekked solo across the icy Antarctica under extreme conditions. The 33-year-old former professional triathlete, covered the last 125 kilometres in a row. After thirty-two hours, without sleep, O’Brady arrived at his destination on Wednesday. He left Union Glacier camp on ...