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continent that has an equal number of female and male ministers. Ramaphosa who hailed the cabinet for making history as the first gender-parity cabinet in the country’s history, joins Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame who have taken similar actions. Ramaphosa’s female ministers include; Thoko Didiza, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic ...

Striker Wilfried Bony has been included in an Ivory Coast’s 27-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations while influential player Gervinho was dropped. The Qatar-based striker is returning to the side for the first time since the 2017 edition of the tournament in Gabon as coach Ibrahim Kamara named him in the provisional list. The 30-year-old, who was ...

A Lagos State Prosecutor, Mrs Y. A. Pitan, has told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos that former Super Eagles captain, Austin Okocha, has not liquidated the alleged tax debt he owed the state. Pitan told Justice Adebayo Akintoye on Tuesday that Okocha had visited the Lagos Internal Revenue Service office but failed to settle the 2017 income tax. “The ...

An imprisoned Algerian human rights activist, who had been on hunger strike for more than 50 days, has died. Kamel Eddine Fekhar was arrested in March for “undermining state security” and put in pre-trial detention. His lawyer, Salah Dabouz, said his client had endured great suffering and neglect behind bars and he would lodge a complaint against the authorities. The ...

The road to the knockout rounds became much clearer on Sunday for Groups A and B at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup Poland 2019. With two of three group stage matches played for eight teams, two sides can already count themselves among the final 16. Italy clinched a place in the Round of 16 at Poland 2019, having recorded back-to-back ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Monday redeemed a 25-year pledge of a house to former Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Mr. Clemens Westerhof. The Dutch gaffer ended Nigeria’s frustrating and unsuccessful attempts to qualify for the World Cup by leading the Super Eagles to pick their first ever World Cup ticket to the 1994 edition in USA. At ...

Ethiopia’s elections body, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, NEBE, says a delayed census will not affect its preparations for elections slated for 2020 – all things being equal. NEBE chairperson Birtukan Mideksa in an interaction on Monday with local media also disclosed that her outfit had submitted a budget of about $129 million to lawmakers for the conduct of ...

Malawi’s incumbent president Peter Mutharika has been declared winner of the 2019 election, having garnered 38.67% of the votes cast, according to results announced by the electoral commission (MEC) on Monday. The declaration of results was enabled by a court decision to lift an injuction by the opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP). The injured obtained on Saturday had halted announcement ...

The Atlas Lions have announced their preliminary team selection for next month’s continental showpiece Dutch Eredivisie winners Hakim Ziyech and Noussair Mazraoui, Saudi Professional League champion Abderazzak Hamdallah and Turkish Super Lig winner Younes Belhanda have been included in Morocco’s 27-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Herve Renard invited most of the players he took to the 2018 Fifa ...

Isha Johansen will discover on Monday if she will continue in per post as the Sierra Leone FA President as the High Court in Freetown will deliver its judgement on the allegations of corruption and mismanagement levelled against her by the government. The ruling will also decide the future of game in the country following the worldwide ban by FIFA that ...