Wayne Lumbasi FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola and retired footballer and Coach Juan Carlos Unzue presented on Monday a friendly game that will be played between the two clubs at Camp Nou on August 24, more than two weeks after the 22/23 Premier League season starts. The match is dubbed ‘A game for a […]
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Wayne Lumbasi Prosecuted for tax evasion by the Spanish courts, Samuel Eto’o chose to plead guilty to avoid going to prison. The Cameroon legend and former Barcelona striker, admitted to defrauding the Spanish treasury of $4million between 2006 and 2009 while playing for the Catalan club. The ex-striker did not declare the income he received from the transfer of […]
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Renson Mwakandana On Monday, the East African Community heads of state of agreed to deploy a regional force to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “The deployed EAC regional force should, in cooperation with the military and administrative forces of the DRC, seek to stabilize and secure the peace in the DRC,” read part of the communique […]
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Renson Mwakandana Belgian officials have returned a tooth to the children of assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, in a further step toward acknowledging the country’s cruel exploitation of the former colony. Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) 🇨🇩, then known as the Republic of Congo, and an […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegalese President Macky Sall, who presently leads the African Union, urged Brussels on Sunday to allow African countries to pay for imported Russian wheat and fertilizers despite EU restrictions excluding Russian banks from international payment networks. “We want to pay, but it is getting increasingly difficult. As a result, we urge the Europeans for the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The World Trade Organization has struck deals on a partial patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines, and made agreements in several other fields of global contention, after a tense six-day ministerial meeting that has renewed some faith in the battered multilateral trading system. The decision follows intense negotiations at the World Trade Organisation, WTO. The […]
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Lisa Mugo International Father’s Day happened on Sunday June 19 and here are how some of your celebrities celebrated the dads in their lives. In Africa, Wizkid posted a video of one of his sons seated in a private jet where they were heading to an unknown location. Wizkid later on posted a short video snippet of […]
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Lisa Mugo Ayodeji ‘Wizkid’ Balogan, has broken his own record as Billboard has announced him as the longest charting African artiste on their famous chart. Star Boy’s hit song ‘Essence’ that feature’s fellow Billboard topping artiste Tems, is the longest running African song on Billboard. Released back in October 2020, ‘Essence’ features in Wizkid’s last album […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South Africa has now turned to Russia for food as it also considers Moscow’s help to mitigate record fuel prices. SA President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke on the phone with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday seeking the supply of agricultural products and fertilisers. The telephone discussion between the two BRICS (Brazil, Russia, […]
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Wayne Lumbasi A Russian tennis player has avoided a Wimbledon ban on all competitors from her country by changing her nationality to Georgian. Russian-born doubles star Natela Dzalamidze will be able to play at this year’s Wimbledon tournament after changing nationalities before the grand slam. Dzalamidze, a 29-year-old who is currently World No.44 in the doubles […]
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