NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 20 – The Horn of Africa region is facing one of its worst droughts in almost a half century with crops failing, livestock dying and children being treated for malnutrition.
Worst affected are in the Somali regions...
English club Arsenal’s star Mesut Ozil has donated 713,000 Turkish liras ($101,000) to the Turkish Red Crescent for an aid campaign for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The money will be used to provide iftar – the evening meal...
On Friday’s marathon and 10-kilometer races held in Hargeisa, Somaliland, 200 athletes from around the world participated.
Not only was the run colorful and exotic to the international runners but, to them, it was also an event that beautifully merged...
Fifty-one countries have registered for the qualifying stages of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
The Confederation of African Football revealed that only two of 54 African countries - Somalia and Djibouti - have opted not to enter the competition.
As...
Somaliland has everything one would expect from a country: its own currency, territory, parliament, flag and passport. What it does not have is a FIFA-recognised international football team. However, this is what four Britons of Somaliland descent are determined...
Abdi Jama was born in the self-declared republic of Somaliland but moved to the UK aged six.
In England, he became paralysed after falling from a window aged 14. He feared his dreams of being a sportsman were over, until...
he best footballers aren’t necessarily the ones with the best physical skills. The difference between success and failure in football often lies in the ability to make the right split-second decisions on the field about where to run and...
Durban, Jul 9, 2009 --- Some 70,000 construction workers in South Africa have gone on strike, halting work on stadiums being built for the 2010 World Cup.
Unions are threatening to wreck the tournament if their demands for a 13% wage...
The Somaliland Minister of Sports, Youth &tourism Hon Ali Said Raygal has announced yet postponement of the national youth tournament which was scheduled to kick-off on the 15th of this month but have now been rescheduled for the 2nd...
President Ali Bongo ONDIMBA, FIFA President Gianni Infantino and CAF president Issa Hayatou attended AFCON 2017 unveiling ceremony as Gabon plays Sierra Leone in Franceville
FRANCEVILLE, Gabon, March 25, 2016/ -- President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon (www.Presidence-Gabon.ga) today unveiled...