Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Kenya Sevens skipper, Humphrey Kayange, has been ruled out Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Stacy Awuor has been dropped from Kenya’s sevens team for the annual invitational women’s Rugby tournament slated for 30 November to 1 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirate. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Rugby Board (IRB) has revamped its Sevens World Series competition and revealed details of its new International Rugby Series as part of its latest efforts to develop the sport ahead of its debut at the 2016 Olympic Games. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - MultiChoice Kenya and SuperSport Monday announced a Sh 8.5 million (US$99,500) sponsorship deal for this year’s Safaricom 7s, Kenya's annual rugby tournament, due to hold 21-23 September at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Blue Bulls of South Africa Monday signed on Kenyan rugby utility forward Daniel Adongo of the Sharks. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali has won the African second division rugby championships, after beating Niger 13-3 in the final played in Bamako Sunday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian capital, Bamako, will 23-30 July host the African Cup of Nations rugby second division competition, according to organizers here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya national sevens rugby team will go for nothing short of finishing within the medals bracket when it takes to the field at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, next month. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- The Moroccan national rugby team has qualified for the final phase of the 2010 African Cup of Nations by winning the tournament for the northern African zone, held weekend in Tunis. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya has booked a place in the Commonwealth Games set for India in October, thanks to its rankings. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya national rugby sevens coach Benjamin Ayimba is con fident that one of the two Kenyan sides â" Kenya or Shujaa â" will win the 15th edition of the Safaricom Sevens. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya on Sunday came out of the London Sevens empty hand ed after suffering a 19-10 Bowl quarter-final loss from arch-rivals US at the Tw i ckenham on the final day of this second-last leg of the IRB World Sevens series. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- It is a race for points as the Kenya national sevens sid e rugby team takes on Tonga in their opening match of the Wellington Sevens in N e w Zealand which kicks off Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Innocent Simiyuâ?s hat trick saw Kenya start off on a g ood note as they beat Zimbabwe 50-0 in the opening match of the George Sevens Ru g by event in South Africa Thursday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Rwandese national rugby team, The Silverbacks, has n amed a squad of 20 players for the National Prins-Loo Sevens rugby contest that k icks off at Nakuru Athletic Club, Kenya, Thursday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Namibia on Saturday beat Tunisia 18-13 in Tunis in the f irst leg final tie of the qualifying round of Rugby World Cup tournament. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will commence its Confederation of African Rugby ( CAR) under-19 tournament title chase with a match against Morocco on Tuesday eve n ing at the Rugby Football Union of East Africa (RFUEA) grounds, Nairobi. Full text...

Lomé- Togo (PANA) -- Niger beat Ghana 5-3 in the finals to emerge winner of the i nternational rugby tournament organised by the African Rugby Confederation. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya is seeking to rewrite the 2008 history as the 13th edition of the Tusker Safari Sevens rugby tournament starts here Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Top seeds Kenya play French side Le Bleus Thursday morni ng in a friendly rugby match geared towards gauging the hosts' form ahead of the Tusker Safari Sevens rugby tournament, which starts here Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's sevens team returned home to a low-key reception here Tuesday despite putting up a good show at the just-concluded IRB Sevens to u rnament in Edinburgh, Scotland. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- It's a race for points and summing the season in style a s Kenya takes on Canada in their IRB Sevens Edinburgh leg rugby match in Scotlan d on Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Collins Injera is among the frontrunners for the top rugby sevens award. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Gordon Tietjen, a highly-respected rugby coach, has ackn owledged Kenya’s meteoric rise in seven-a-side rugby. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Shujaa seven-a-side rugby team will face Algeria in their Pool B match of this year's Tangier Sevens tournament in Morocco. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya demolished Cayman Islands 67-0, but it was the US who qualified for Sunday's final with a mathematical advantage of a bonus point i n the ongoing IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy Wednesday at RFUEA grounds, Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Collins Omae scored a second half hat-trick of tries as hosts Kenya completed a stunning comeback to cause the first upset of the IRB Ju n ior World Rugby Trophy 2009 with a 33-32 defeat of US at a packed RFUEA Ground, N airobi, Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Adelaide Sevens finalists Kenya will play Scotland, US a nd Fiji in that order in Pool C of the seventh leg in the 2008/09 IRB Sevens Wor l d Series rugby tournament slated for 23-24 May in London. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan returns to the field Saturday to face a lifetime test from US as the 2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy (JWRT) event that enters t he second day in Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya started the 2010 Rugby Junior World Championship ( IRB) Qualifying event in Nairobi Tuesday on a losing note, falling 17-22 to Nami b ia. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Coach Mitch Ocholla Wednesday named a strong side to spe arhead Kenya's onslaught in the 2009 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy tournament. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Ghana beat Niger 5-0 on Sunday in Bamako, in the finals of the first edition of the African nations rugby championship of the under 18s. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Eight countries have confirmed their participation in the African Nations Under-18 rugby championship, to be held 13-15 March in the Malian capital, Bamako, the Malian Rugby Association told PANA here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya set up an epic clash with England after beating Ho ng Kong 43-7 in their second match of the fifth Rugby World Cup Sevens tournamen t in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali will host the first edition of the African Under-18 R ugby Championship 13-15 March, the Malian Rugby Federation (FMR) announced here F riday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya fell to New Zealand 7-22 to miss the IRB World Sevens Plate of the San Diego leg of the global rugby event which ended Sunday at the Petco Park Stadium. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's national seven-a-side rugby team finally got the better side of South Africa, upsetting them 22-17 to qualify for the quarter fi n als of the International Rugby Board (IRB) Wellington leg in New Zealand Friday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Rugby Football Union (KRFU) Wednesday got a cl ean bill of health from the International Rugby Board (IRB) ahead of the Junior W orld Rugby Trophy tournament slated for 21 April - 3 May in Nairobi. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Collins Injera and Victor Oduor will be out to b etter their try scoring as the IRB Sevens rugby tournament enters the third and f ourth legs in Wellington and San Diego in New Zealand and the United States resp e ctively. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's national rugby Sevens team has dropped two place s in the ongoing 2008/9 IRB Sevens World Series Tournaments after a disastrous o u ting over the weekend in George, South Africa. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Kenya won the African Nations' Cup of the seven-a-side r ugby tournament after beating Zimbabwe 26-14 in the finals here Sunday. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroun (PANA) -- Cameroun, due to lack of funds, will not take part in the seven-team rugby tournament, to be held 30 October - 1 November in Tunis, T u nisia. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia will host, between 31 October and 1 November, th e qualifying tournament of the African zone to the Rugby World Cup tournament, P A NA learnt from the Tunisian Rugby Federation. Full text...

Curepipe- Mauritius (PANA) -- The Reunion rugby team thrashed Mauritius 10-3 in the second round of the Car Development Trophy (CDT, Southern Africa Zone) tournament played here on Thursday evening. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Debutants Fiji believe they will emerge winners of this year's Tusker Safari Sevens rugby tournament if signals emanating from their cam p is anything to go by. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Fiji will be among the 15 foreign teams expected to part icipate in this year's Tusker Safari Sevens rugby tournament slated for 20-22 Ju n e in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Full text...

Orléans- France (PANA) -- Namibian Kees Lensing has undergone medical tests with a view to signing a contract with the Castres rugby club (Top 14) in France, a sports source has disclosed here. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya and Nigeria are among the 14 African countries that will battle for tickets to the 2011 Rugby World Cup whose finals are slated for New Zealand. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Mr. Full text...

Orléans- France (PANA) -- South Africa's Bryan Habana was Sunday elected the best rugby player of the year 2007, the International Rugby Board (IRB) announced Monday in Orleans, France. Full text...