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All eyes on Cairo ahead of Total Women's AFCON draw on Monday The draw for the Total Women's Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2022 Qualifiers will be conducted on Monday, 10 May 2021 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.    The draw will be live from 13:00 Cairo local time (11:00 GMT).    The Total Women's Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2022 will pit the continent’s finest women’s football teams against each other next year.   Nigeria, defending champion and most successful team with nine (9) titles in eleven (11) editions, will once again compet...

We would like to inform the public of the official confirmation of location and date for the Rugby Africa Cup Repechage (www.RugbyAfrique.com). The tournament will be hosted by the Burkina Faso Rugby Union in the capital Ouagadougou, from the 5th to the 13th of June. Talking on the sidelines of organizing the tournament Rolande Boro, the President of the Burkina Faso Rugby Union, preparations are underway and now at an advanced stage, with growing fan excitement cheering on. Andrew Owor, Vice President of Rugby Africa, and President of the Rugby Committee, applauds the readiness of the Burkin...

The Irish Government provides funding to Irish Sailing. These funds are exclusively for the benefit of the Performance Pathway. However, this falls short of the amount required to fund the Performance Pathway in order to allow Ireland compete at the highest level. As a result the Performance Pathway programme currently receives around €850,000 per annum from Sport Ireland and €150,000 from sponsorship. A further €2 million per annum is needed to have a major impact at the highest level. The Irish Sailing Foundation was established to bridge the financial gap through securing philanthrop...

BOBA hoping for four more spots Botswana Boxing Association (BOBA) have set themselves an ambitious target of securing four more spots at next year’s Tokyo Olympics. As things stand, 23-year-old Keamogetse Kenosi is the only local pugilist certain of a place at the global event. Indeed, the impressive Francistown fighter was the first African boxer to secure a place at the Olympics following her Gold Medal at the African Qualifiers in Senegal back in February. The history-making DTCB Boxing Club will be the first female to represent Botswana in an Olympic ring an the tenth boxer overall. Al...