The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has confirmed the final qualification list for the Birmingham 2022 World Games where canoe marathon is set to make its debut.

number of Hungarians to star at the recent ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships ©ICFHungary, South Africa

The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) has signed a commercial deal with media

due to be held in Ghana in 2023 ©Getty Images  Managing director of Sportfive Middle East and Africa

Accra, host of the 2023 African Games, staged the African Swimming Championships, which saw South Africa

4x100m medley relay.The times in the two women's freestyle relays were Championships records, with South Africa

competitions in Accra ©Getty ImagesEmily Visagie contributed to a further two individual golds for South Africa

Ruan Ras triumphed in the 50m and 100m butterfly and the 400m individual medley respectively as South Africa

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been appointed as the official venue network infrastructure supporter for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

attendance ©Getty ImagesSenior vice president and managing director of UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa

Sports development initiatives as part of the preparations for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will begin in the first half of next year, it was revealed at the third Coordination Commission meeting.

Senegal and Africa are ready to host and get involved with all these sporting initiatives in the run-up

The new calendar offers unprecedented opportunities for Senegal and Africa," Coventry said."

These first Games in Africa will be exemplary in a number of ways."

Voting has opened for the election of World Triathlon’s Athletes’ Committee as 17 candidates battle it out for 10 positions.

contention.In total, there are 10 nominees from Europe, two from the Americas, two from Asia, two from Africa

One-day world champions England will be looking to take the Twenty20 (T20) crown away from the West Indies in the delayed International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's T20 World Cup.

one-day batter in the world at present is Pakistan's Babar Azam, and he makes them dangerous, while South Africa

Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) secretary general Abdoulie Jallow has refuted "baseless" allegations that he is continuing to interfere in the country’s basketball association’s affairs - despite his resignation two years ago.

We made many follow ups with FIBA until May-June 2020 when we got a letter from FIBA Africa telling us

that the current executive of the GBA is not recognised by FIBA Africa."

National Sports Council (NSC) and Gambia National Olympic Committee disputing the letter from FIBA Africa

Executive Board was not allowed at GNOC AGMs was because they had not been recognised by the FIBA and FIBA Africa

National Paralympic Committee (NPC) of Ghana President Samson Deen believes he is "certain to emerge victorious" from the three-way battle to become the new head of the African Paralympic Committee (APC).

Para Games in 2023.Deen was nominated by NPC Ghana to represent the Organising Committee for the 2023 Africa

After the 2020 meet was cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions, the World Athletics Cross Country Tour begins again in Cardiff, with Britain's Charlotte Arter looking to repeat her victory from 2019.

series.The Cross Country Tour is, per World Athletics, "expected to have stops in North America, Asia, Africa

The Ashes series between Australia and England this December now seems likely to go ahead. England named a touring party this week after long discussions between the two cricket Boards.

They played three Tests against South Africa.

Morinari Watanabe’s campaign to be re-elected President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) continues to benefit from the full backing of the Japanese Government.

Watanabe claimed that his visit to Nigeria was aimed at encouraging the development of gymnastics in Africa

nbsp;"During this event, I was awarded a medal for contributing to the development of gymnastics in Africa

Davide Tizzano has been elected as the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games' (CIJM) first new President for 18 years, succeeding Amar Addadi, with Heraklion in Greece confirmed as host of the 2023 Mediterranean Beach Games.

started in Pescara in Italy in 2015 and were held in Patras in Greece four years later.NOCs from Europe, Africa

Key members of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) leadership have called on Governments in Africa to

A virtual forum was attended by 10 Ministers for Sport from across Africa, as well as the African Union's

Affairs and Social Development.WADA President Witold Bańka thanked the Government representatives from Africa

Integrity Unit category A National Federations - those that have the highest doping risk - are from Africa

category A.Bańka told the forum collaboration with athletes was important to ensure each country in Africa

For Africa to play its part in strengthening the global anti-doping movement, African Governments and

The next International Olympic Committee (IOC) Presidential election may be just shy of four years away, but talk in the Movement has already turned to Thomas Bach’s potential successor.

The Youth Olympic Games in the Senegalese capital - the first major IOC event in Africa - had been scheduled