Two women have been added by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to its previously all-male Ethics Commission, it was announced today. 

Former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Catherine O’Regan and Singapore National Olympic

The Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) has withdrawn its men’s team from this month’s African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Brazzaville, citing financial constraints and lack of Government commitment as the reasons.

countries who finish second and third in the Congolese capital, which played host to the 2015 All-Africa

team coach Paul Gitau, who was in charge of the women's "B" team which triumphed at last year’s All-Africa

World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset is predicting a "game-changing" year for the sport as the sevens version makes its debut at the Olympic Games and the international governing body bids to continue what is said to be record participation growth.

sport via World Rugby's Get Into Rugby mass-participation programme with major growth experienced in Africa

2023 Rugby World Cup will "continue to gather pace this year" with Ireland, France, Italy and South Africa

Anyone wishing Amir Khan a Happy New Year is risking a right-hander from the normally amiable boxer from Bolton who won a nation’s heart in Athens back in 2004 when, as a 17-year-old, he fought a solo battle for Britain in the Olympics, losing only to the Cuban Mario Kindelan, then the world's finest amateur, in the final.

funding coaches and equipment to develop the sport in Pakistan.Khan has worked with the charity Horn of Africa

Guinea has officially been cleared to host international football matches after the West African country was declared free of Ebola.

able to play Malawi in capital Conakry in March as part of the qualification process for the 2017 Africa

World Cup qualifiers in October, but they will be able to resume their bid to qualify for the 2017 Africa

Niger Taekwondo Federation chief Issaka Ide has been elected President of the Niger National Olympic and Sports Committee (COSNI), it has been announced.

increase the awareness of our beloved sport within the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

The year 2015 will go down as one of the most successful years in taekwondo’s history. At the beginning of the year we received the very welcome news that taekwondo would be included in the Tokyo Paralympic Games in 2020. This was a huge honour for taekwondo and truly makes us a “sport for all".

expect will advise us on suitable locations for future THF projects, most probably in refugee camps in Africa

The New Year promises no lessening of the turmoil and controversy within which football’s international governing body, FIFA, is currently embroiled. And while the game continues to purge itself of the corruption which appears to have reached so many of its loftiest branches, its roots – namely, the Laws of The Game – are also subject to imminent, sweeping change.

recommendations are considered – or implemented.In the lead-up to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa

A stand-alone Para-triathlon World Championships and five Continental Championships are scheduled to be held in the forthcoming year after the International Triathlon Union (ITU) confirmed their complete calendar.

the 2016 World Para-triathlon event series is set to get underway on March 19 in Buffalo City, South Africa

International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson believes the governing body have made significant steps to boost its integrity and credibility in 2015, citing progress made in anti-doping following publication of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report.

agreements with National Anti-Doping Organisations in countries such as Switzerland, France, Denmark, South Africa

Double Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games gold medallist Eucharia Njideka Iyiazi has accused the Para-athletics Federation of Nigeria (PFN) of unlawfully denying her the chance to compete at Rio 2016.

has affected her training.Iyiazi, a bronze medallist in the shot put and discus at this year’s All-Africa

The joint 2018 World Cup bid by The Netherlands and Belgium is to be scrutinised by the FIFA Ethics Committee following allegations of vote buying in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

continued allegations of corruption within the 2006 and 2010 World Cup bid races, won by Germany and South Africa

The Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) has announced they are hoping to raise 43 million birr (£1.4 million/$2 million/€1.9 million) which will help to cover their costs for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

evaluated the way the Ethiopian World Taekwondo Federation has carried out the preparation for the All Africa

As if FIFA didn’t have enough problems at present, the recently-published television audience report for last year’s World Cup in Brazil gives rise to the question, "Has the governing body’s flagship tournament plateaued out as a global TV phenomenon?"

was 2.1 billion viewers, down four per cent from the corresponding figure - 2.2 billion - for South Africa

in-home television audience per live match was 186.7 million; this compared with 188.4 million in South Africa

competition, well that measure yielded a total in-home television audience of 3.2 billion, the same as South Africa

Then again, that South Africa figure was itself down 19 per cent from Germany 2006, when the Socceroos

airing any support programming (such as magazines and highlights) during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

FIFA Presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale has appeared in front of a Grand Jury in the United States as a potential witness and was questioned over an alleged corrupt payment of $10 million (£7 million/€9 million) made to former vice-president Jack Warner, according to BBC Sport.

Caribbean Association Football, who is now banned from football for life, as a bribe to help secure South Africa

over three wire transfers to Warner and two other Executive Committee members for supporting South Africa

on the FIFA Executive Committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa

South Africa is clean and we had a clean World Cup."