AFP Africa

Kenya’s Lilian Odira overhauled Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson to win the women’s 800 metres title at the world championships in Tokyo on Sunday.Odira set a championship record– and a massively improved personal best time — of 1min 54.62sec for victory, beating by 0.06sec the previous best set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of the then-Czechoslavakia in Helsinki …

Kenya’s Odira upsets Hodgkinson to win world 800m goldSun, 21 Sep 2025 11:01:54 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe won the Berlin Marathon for the first time on Sunday, narrowly missing a personal best in just his third marathon attempt. Sawe finished in 2hr 02min 16sec, 11 seconds slower than his personal best set in Valencia in 2024.Sawe’s time is equal ninth fastest in history, but fell outside the late Kelvin Kiptum’s …

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe wins men’s Berlin MarathonSun, 21 Sep 2025 10:00:14 GMT Read More »

Guineans began casting ballots Sunday on a draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the junta leader who seized power four years ago to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.The vote, which Guineans and the international community have been awaiting for years, opens the way for …

Guinea votes in constitutional referendum boycotted by oppositionSun, 21 Sep 2025 08:43:24 GMT Read More »

Four years after the military seized power, Guineans will finally vote Sunday on a new draft constitution that would pave the way for elections but also permit the country’s junta leader to run for president, in a referendum boycotted by the opposition.The vote, which Guineans and the international community have been awaiting for years, opens …

Guinea to vote in constitutional referendum boycotted by oppositionSun, 21 Sep 2025 03:02:13 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi added the world crown to his laurels with a hard-fought victory in the men’s 800 metres on Saturday.Wanyonyi timed a championship record of 1min 41.86sec for gold in Tokyo, just four hundredths of a second ahead of Algeria’s fast-finishing Djamel Sedjati.Defending champion Marco Arop of Canada had to settle for …

Kenya’s Wanyonyi holds off Sedjati for world 800m goldSat, 20 Sep 2025 14:04:52 GMT Read More »

Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet produced a devastating burst of speed to edge Kenyan teammate Faith Kipyegon for victory in the women’s 5,000m on Saturday and secure a world championships double gold.Chebet, who last weekend won the 10,000m, clocked 14min 54.36sec for victory, depriving Kipyegon of her own 1,500/5,000m double bid by 0.71sec.It was a remarkable …

Chebet outsprints Kipyegon to win 5,000m for world doubleSat, 20 Sep 2025 13:08:23 GMT Read More »

Some are confident in a new direction for their country while others fear continued restrictions on freedoms: In Guinea, where people will cast ballots Sunday on a new constitution, voters are divided.The draft constitution, if approved, is in theory meant to return the west African nation of 14.5 million to constitutional order following four years …

Ahead of Guinea referendum, proponents are vocal but opposition silencedSat, 20 Sep 2025 12:19:24 GMT Read More »

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance, the opposition party in a fragile coalition with the African National Congress, on Saturday named veteran activist Helen Zille to lead its campaign to take country’s main city Johannesburg from the ANC in elections next year.Local elections scheduled to be held between November 2026 and January 2027 loom as a major …

S. Africa opposition launches campaign to seize Johannesburg from ANCSat, 20 Sep 2025 11:53:51 GMT Read More »

Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel is expecting a tough challenge from Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar when the cycling Road World Championships begin in Kigali on Sunday with the men’s and women’s time-trials.Belgian Evenepoel is the reigning champion in the discipline having also triumphed in 2023.And while time-trialling is not Pogacar’s main strength, he …

Pogacar challenge delights Evenepoel for Rwanda world championshipsSat, 20 Sep 2025 01:50:00 GMT Read More »

Malawi’s ruling party claimed on Friday that it had discovered irregularities in the vote count in nearly half the country’s districts after this week’s elections, while police announced the arrests of eight data clerks for allegedly tampering with results.The 2019 presidential election was nullified because of widespread irregularities and officials in the largely poor southern …

Malawi ruling party claims tampering in vote countFri, 19 Sep 2025 23:45:55 GMT Read More »