Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association will on Saturday present the first-ever international kickboxing tournament which will see Finland and Equatorial Guinea battling it out with the Zimbabwean team at Girls’ High School in Harare. The Zimbabwe Kickboxing Association manager Mohammed Omar said a Zimbabwean team comprising of young athletes was looking forward to giving the visitors a [...]
Offshore staff BROUSSARD, Louisiana – Noble Energy EG has awarded Delmar Systems a contract to supply an eight-leg preset mooring system for use in Noble Energy’s Aseng development off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Delmar provided Noble Energy mooring equipment including Delmar’s patented OMNI-Max anchors and Delmar Subsea Connectors (DSCs). All equipment has [...]
By Brian Homewood NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) – Women’s football is refreshingly free of the histrionics which blight the men’s game and must not allow itself to be contaminated by success, UEFA’s first female executive committee member told Reuters in an interview. Karen Espelund said the recent success of the women’s World Cup won by Japan [...]
(AFP) – Jul 7, 2011 FRANKFURT, Germany — Equatorial Guinea coach Marcello Frigerio admitted he would love to one day lead the national team of his native Brazil and praised the performance of his captain Anonman at the 2011 Women’s World Cup. The Brazilian-Italian coach, who took over from Jean-Paul Mpila in March, said hearing [...]
body .displaytickersn{ *float:left } ]]> Oil-Rich African Government’s Notorious Censorship Challenged by Online Website WASHINGTON, August 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — EG Justice today launches a new website that is a definitive source for information related to Equatorial Guinea. The website (www.egjustice.org) features up-to-date news, reports, and analysis covering political, economic, and social issues in Equatorial [...]
(AFP) – 16 hours ago MALABO — The president of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Tuesday said he will leave power when his people are tired of him, a day before the country marks the start of his 32nd year in power. “The day you are tired of me, I will retire,” Obiang said [...]
Posted: 2011-08-01 14:58 Botswana national team head coach Stanely Tshosane has expressed his excitement about the prospect of facing Bafana Bafana in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. Botswana were drawn in Group A together with South Africa, Cenral African Republic and either Somalia or Ethopia. The Zebras are currently riding the crest of wave after [...]
By Sports Reporter ISRAELI-based Zambia midfielder William Njobvu has said he is ready for the new European season and to help the Chipolopolo seal qualification for the 2012 Africa Cup finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The 24-year-old former Lusaka Dynamos midfielder said from is base in Israel that he had grown in everything and [...]
July 30th, 2011 | by: Rami | View Comments<!– View Comments –> <!– Comments (0) –> After just barely emerging as a top seed earlier this week thanks to the latest FIFA Rankings, our luck continued today at the 2014 World Cup Qualifying Draw where we were grouped with Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, and the [...]
Two foreign shoe sellers were once sent to Africa in search of new customers. At the sight of locals marching barefooted, the first retreated in despair. The second rejoiced at the untapped market. He ordered thousands of shoes, sold them to locals and became a wealthy man, or so the tale goes. There is an [...]
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Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]