Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou has arrived in Addis Ababa where he will be aiming to secure an eighth term at the head of the continental governing body.

Getty Images"We have waited for this moment and we want to conclude the elections on Thursday so that Africa

for change at the top of African football's governing body ©Getty Images"The development of CAN (the Africa

But the main beneficiaries of these changes must be players, especially those in Africa."

Assembly will allow the country to attract more attention from CAF members in its bid to host the 2025 Africa

Former British fell running champion Lauren Jeska has been jailed for 18 years for the attempted murder of a UK Athletics official in an attack at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium in March last year.

England at under-23 and sevens level but turned down the chance to go on tour with England to South Africa

Francis Dodoo will face opposition for the Presidency of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) from Ben Nunoo-Mensah at an election due to take place in Accra tomorrow.

Association.During his athletics career Dodoo competed in the triple jump, winning the gold medal at the 1987 All-Africa

World Rugby's technical review group arrived in South Africa to assess the country's bid to host the

of three visits to the countries who are bidding to win the right to the host the tournament.South Africa

submit their detailed bid documents to World Rugby on June 1, a technical review group will be in South Africa

21 to March 22 before completing their visits in France between March 30 and 31.They landed in South Africa

Baton Relay at Buckingham Palace for Gold Coast 2018.It had been estimated that staging the Games in Africa

then, they had not formed an Organising Committee or made any of the payments due to the CGF.South Africa

The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has confirmed it will appeal the decision of the National Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) to dissolve its Board of Directors. 

rigged.The latest news comes just over a month after Egypt were beaten 2-1 by Cameroon in the final of the Africa

Cup of Nations in Gabon.Egypt were beaten by Cameroon in the final of this year's Africa Cup of Nations

marketing and media agency for all of Africa's major footballing events, in June 2015.The deal includes the Africa

Manchester have joined Birmingham and Liverpool by confirming they are willing to replace Durban as hosts for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 

It is disappointing that South Africa and Durban have been unable to organise the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Fikile Mbalula, South Africa’s Minister of Sport, has expressed the Government’s disappointment at the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF’s) decision to strip Durban of the Games in 2022.

his Government would financially support the events.It had been estimated that staging the Games in Africa

Mbalula claimed clauses in the Host City agreement would "seriously comprise South Africa", referencing

South Africa remains a premier destination for such mega sporting events and our solid infrastructure

Africa failed to meet several deadlines to present an adequate budget."

The entire bidding process was doomed from the start, South Africa was ill-prepared and underfinanced

The Equatorial Guinea Football Association has appeared at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to appeal a FIFA imposed ban against the nation's women's team after the sport's world governing body, FIFA, found one of their players had used false documentation.

the appeal hearing is aimed at overturning a ban from both the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Women's Africa

conduct.The appeal is hoping to overturn a ban from both the 2018 and 2020 editions of the Women's Africa

matters".The Equatorial Guinea men's team were also initially disqualified from playing at the 2015 Africa

Brazil booked their place in the men’s and women’s World Group at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup, after winning both qualification events in Quito, Ecuador.

take place from May 1 to 7.Brazil will be joined by Tanzania and Thailand, who won the qualifiers for Africa

Commonwealth Games Wales (CGW) have confirmed the country will welcome the Gold Coast 2018 Queen’s Baton for four days in September.

Gold Coast, beginning in Sierra Leone.It will visit all 70 Commonwealth nations and territories in Africa

unable to find a head coach has forced the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) to pull out of the 2019 Africa

necessary funds to keep the team running towards the upcoming tournaments.Malawi have featured at two Africa

Malawi have qualified twice for the Africa Cup of Nations, reaching the group stage of the 1984 tournament

for CHAN or the FIFA World Cup.Kenya are due to host the next CHAN tournament in 2018 and the 2019 Africa

Durban has been stripped of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has exclusively confirmed to insidethegames.

We are sad, of course we are, but particularly for the people of South Africa," Grevemberg said.

 It had been estimated that staging the Games in Africa for the first time would have cost at least

Commonwealth Games Federation has completed its review of the final information submitted by South Africa

We had hoped to make this a Games for all of Africa, and so this is a very sad day for the whole continent

and remains committed to realising the shared ambitions of a future Commonwealth Games in Africa.

The Queen has officially launched the Queen's Baton Relay for next year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast at a ceremony here today.

Gold Coast, beginning in Sierra Leone.It will visit all 70 Commonwealth nations and territories in Africa

England claimed their second World Rugby Sevens Series event victory of the season after defeating South Africa

South Africa entered the competition aiming to win a third consecutive title after the Rio 2016 Olympic

than a minute on the clock.Richard de Carpentier brought England back into the match though.With South Africa

the World Series, having now scored 244 in total during his career.England, pictured, overcame South Africa

a 28-24 win over the United States.Fiji were beaten 40-7 by England in the semi-finals while South Africa

.England's victory puts them into second overall in the series table on 103 points, 23 behind South Africa

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has criticised the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) and the public prosecutor for financial and commercial affairs after it emerged they had referred them, its President Issa Hayatou and secretary general Hicham El Amrani to the Egyptian Economic Court.

marketing and media agency for all of Africa's major footballing events, in June 2015.The deal includes the Africa

Sports is also an agency that can deliver and execute CAF’s vast programme of events - including the Africa