Football champion Didier Drogba appointed WHO ambassador for sports, health

18 october 2021 - 21:02:10 WA

Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday appointed football legend Didier Drogba its Goodwill Ambassador for Sport and Health. Drogba, from Côte d’Ivoire, [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 4 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Tuesday

13 october 2021 - 05:24:31 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of Day 4 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Tuesday. Group A Niger 0-4 Algeria Table after 4 [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 4 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Monday

12 october 2021 - 05:27:02 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of Day 4 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Monday. Group A Burkina Faso 2-0 Djibouti Table after [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 4 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Sunday

11 october 2021 - 05:10:43 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of Day 4 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Sunday. Group B Zambia 1-1 Equatorial Guinea Mauritania 0-0 Tunisia Table [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 3 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Saturday

10 october 2021 - 05:47:51 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of Day 3 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Saturday. Group G Ethiopia 1-3 South Africa Ghana 3-1 Zimbabwe Table [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of some Day 3 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Friday

09 october 2021 - 08:07:20 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 3 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Friday. Group A Algeria 6-1 Niger Djibouti 4-0 Burkina [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of some Day 3 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Thursday

08 october 2021 - 05:30:33 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 3 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Thursday. Group B Equatorial Guinea 2-0 Zambia Tunisia [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 3 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Wednesday

07 october 2021 - 08:02:38 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 3 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Wednesday. Group I Guinea 1-1 Sudan Morocco [...] Full text...

South African spectators permitted to watch World Cup qualifier

06 october 2021 - 13:27:22 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – For the first time in 18 months, spectators will be permitted to attend a major sporting fixture. The South [...] Full text...

South Africa's first black rugby captain shares his incredible story

05 october 2021 - 12:58:28 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There is major interest in the rugby hero Siya Kolisi’s official biography which unpacks his battles with poverty and [...] Full text...

Cape Town to host international Motor Racing

04 october 2021 - 15:26:44 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African city of Cape Town has been announced as one of the host cities of the international [...] Full text...

Coronavirus: South Africa offers free tickets for vaccinated football fans

01 october 2021 - 13:39:52 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African football fans who are vaccinated against COVID-19 will receive free entry to watch the national team play [...] Full text...

Rwanda football season kicks off 30 October

28 september 2021 - 18:15:50 AR

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Rwanda football league  2021/22 will kick off on 30 October, the national football governing body, FERWAFA, has confirmed. It explained that the [...] Full text...

Ghana appoints Serbian Milovan Rajevac as coach of senior national football team

24 september 2021 - 17:11:37 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Friday unveiled Serbian Milovan Rajevac as the coach of the senior national football team, the [...] Full text...

Botswana Football Association lobbies for return of active sports

17 september 2021 - 11:30:00 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana Football Association (BFA) has engaged its medical experts to develop guidelines to align with the country’s COVID-19 guidelines, as active [...] Full text...

Ghana Football Association sacks head coach of senior national team

13 september 2021 - 18:51:12 MA

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana Football Association (GFA) has sacked the head coach of the senior national football team, the Black Stars, Charles Akonnor, with [...] Full text...

CAF: Matches involving Guinea clubs will be played in single leg at away venues following Sunday's coup

09 september 2021 - 10:40:55 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Interclub Committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided that all three fixtures involving clubs from Guinea in [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Standings after Day 2 second round CAF qualifying matches

08 september 2021 - 05:56:09 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the standings after Day 2 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches.  The match between Morocco and Guinea has been [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 2 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Tuesday

08 september 2021 - 05:23:30 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are results of Day 2 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Tuesday. Group A Burkina Faso 1-1 Algeria Group [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 2 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Monday

07 september 2021 - 05:47:56 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are results of some Day 2 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Monday. Group A Djibouti 2-4 Niger Group [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC Qualifier: Nigeria coach predicts positive result against Cape Verde

06 september 2021 - 09:29:11 VAO

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr is upbeat the Super Eagles can pull off a positive result as the West Africans head for [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 2 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Sunday

06 september 2021 - 05:27:38 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are results of some Day 2 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Sunday. Group E Rwanda 1-1 Kenya Group [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Standings after Day 1 second round CAF qualifying matches

04 september 2021 - 08:24:36 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the standings after Day 1 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches. Group A Country            [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Fixtures of Day 2 second round CAF qualifying matches to be played from Sunday to Tuesday

04 september 2021 - 08:22:31 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the full fixtures of Day 2 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches to be played from Sunday [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 1 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Friday

04 september 2021 - 05:44:56 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 1 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Friday. Group B Mauritania 1-2 [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 1 second round CAF qualifying matches played on Thursday

03 september 2021 - 05:18:12 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 1 Africa 2nd round 2022 World Cup qualifying matches played on Thursday. Group A Niger 0-2 [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifier: South African players in quarantine ahead of World Cup qualifier

02 september 2021 - 12:03:05 CU

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Top South African football players Thabiso Kutumela and Thibang Phete will miss the country’s World Cup qualifiers against Zimbabwe [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Zambia hopeful for fresh start against Mauritania

02 september 2021 - 11:09:57 VAO

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Zambia midfielder Enock Mwepu hopes that Friday’s FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B African qualifier against Mauritania will be the [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Fixtures of some Day 1 matches to be played on Thursday

02 september 2021 - 08:54:40 VAO

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are fixtures of some Day 1 matches the African qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, to [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA WC qualifiers: Results of Day 1 qualifying matches played on Wednesday

02 september 2021 - 05:42:18 MA

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are the results of some Day 1 Africa's round 2 World Cup qualifying matches played on Wednesday. Group C Central African [...] Full text...

Senegalese national team makes good start in 2022 World Cup qualifiers against Togo

01 september 2021 - 22:09:01 MTA

Thies, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese national team Wednesday made a good start in its campaign for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar when the [...] Full text...

2021 Women's Champions league: Semifinal fixtures of COSAFA Qualifiers revealed

01 september 2021 - 05:26:11 VAO

Durban, South Africa (PANA) - Zambia’s Green Buffaloes and Botswana’s Double Action Ladies have booked their places in semi-finals of the Council of Southern Africa [...] Full text...

2021 Women's Champions league: Central Africa reps set to emerge

01 september 2021 - 05:22:51 VAO

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The final first leg of the CAF TotalEnergies Women's Champions League qualifying round in the Central African Football Federations' Union [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA World Cup/African Qualifiers: Matchday 1 fixtures

31 august 2021 - 19:55:12 VAO

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The following are Matchday 1 fixtures for the African qualifying competition for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The matches will [...] Full text...

Four South African teams among Africa's biggest spenders

30 august 2021 - 19:57:50 VAO

Zurich, Switzerland (NAN) - Four teams from South Africa have ranked among Africa's biggest spenders on international signings over the last decade in a survey [...] Full text...

Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw breaks half marathon world record

30 august 2021 - 16:52:03 MTA

Belfast, Northern Ireland (PANA) - Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw set a new world half-marathon record in Larne, Northern Ireland, on Sunday with a time of 1:03.43, [...] Full text...

COSAFA Qualifiers: Sundowns, Black Rhinos secure semifinal spots

29 august 2021 - 19:23:38 VAO

Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and Zimbabwe’s Black Rhinos Queens are the first two teams to secure semifinal spots [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Rwanda coach names final squad for campaign

29 august 2021 - 19:08:35 VAO

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda coach, Vincent Mashami has named his final squad which will play Mali and Kenya in the Qatar 2022 World Cup [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Nigeria name squad to face Liberia, Cape Verde

29 august 2021 - 13:01:11 VAO

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria’s German coach, Gernot Rohr, has called up a list of 30 players for the Super Eagles' opening two games in [...] Full text...

2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup: Eliminated Mozambique proud of their debut

27 august 2021 - 19:33:15 VAO

Moscow, Russia (PANA) - After their elimination in the group stage of 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Russia, the national team of Mozambique, [...] Full text...

2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier: Mali unveil team against Rwanda, Uganda

27 august 2021 - 19:32:30 VAO

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali coach Mohamed Magassouba, on Thursday unveiled a list of players who will face Rwanda on September 1, 2021, at the [...] Full text...

AFCON Women's CL qualifiers: "Amani are not a team to underrate", says Malabo King goalkeeper

27 august 2021 - 19:31:45 VAO

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Equatorial Guinea's Malabo King will continue their qualification bid against DR Congo's FCF Amani in the final of Central African [...] Full text...

FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: 27 Stallions to face Mena and Desert Foxes

27 august 2021 - 18:49:37 VAO

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabe national team will face Niger and Algeria respectively on September 2 and 7, 2021 in Marrakech, Morocco, as [...] Full text...

Botswana muses building high performance centre for athletes

26 august 2021 - 18:18:02 DRW

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana’s sports minister has implored the nation to consider building dedicated areas for the training of athletes. Tumiso Rakgare, Minister of Youth [...] Full text...

Senegal surprises Brazil (5 - 4), qualifies for the semi-finals of Beach Soccer World Cup

26 august 2021 - 18:12:30 MTA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese national Beach Soccer team on Thursday qualified for the semi-finals of the Beach Soccer World Cup, taking place at [...] Full text...

Senegal enters African male Afrobasket competition

25 august 2021 - 22:00:33 MSA

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Senegalese national male basketball team has made a big start into the 30th Afrobasket which opened on Tuesday at the Kigali [...] Full text...

CAF requests Britain to grant exemption to African players for international window

25 august 2021 - 20:07:52 VAO

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has noted the current circumstances in place in Britain regarding the lack of sporting exemptions [...] Full text...

Malawi: Coach Mwase names squad for World Cup qualifiers

23 august 2021 - 20:03:18 VAO

Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi’s Flames coach, Meck Mwase, has gone for continuity in naming his 25-member squad for next month’s Qatar 2022 FIFA World [...] Full text...

Uganda: Magogo re-elected FUFA President

23 august 2021 - 19:53:17 VAO

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Moses Hassim Magogo has been re-elected President of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) for a third term that runs [...] Full text...

Harambee Stars coach, Mulee, names Kenya squad for World Cup qualifiers

23 august 2021 - 19:40:14 VAO

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya "Harambee Stars" head coach, Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee, has named a provisional squad of 36 players ahead of next month’s World [...] Full text...