Fri 11 February 2022: French footballer Paul Pogba on Thursday waded into the hijab controversy raging in India after sharing a video with the caption ‘Hindutva mobs continue to harass Muslim girls wearing hijab to college in India.’ The Manchester United star — a devout Muslim — shared the video on his Instagram stories to […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: In an interview with French newspaper L’Equipe at a hotel in Beijing, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai denied she had made such allegations. “In the text we could see in Europe, you accused someone of sexual assault. What did you really write? We don’t understand,” asked the paper. “Sexual assault? I […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: Cameroon: Senegal won their first Africa Cup of Nations title with a 4-2 penalty shoot-out triumph over seven-time winners Egypt, with Sadio Mane scoring the winning spot-kick after missing one in the early minutes of the game. On Sunday at the Olembe Stadium in Yaounde, Cameroon’s Yaounde, Mane made history for […]
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Mon 07 February 2022: The final between Senegal and Egypt was remained 0-0 after extra time, but Senegal held their calm to beat Egypt on penalties and win their first ever Africa Cup of Nations trophy. When Senegal edged Egypt in possession and talisman Sadio Mané was awarded a penalty, it appeared like Senegal would […]
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Sun 06 February 2022: Yaounde, Cameroon – In July 2019, Senegalese journalist Bamba Kasse saw his country’s football fans dejected, frustrated and disappointed at the Cairo International Stadium as their national team, Lions of Teranga, lost to Algeria in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final. “Everyone was disappointed,” Kasse told Al Jazeera. “It was not […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is to face his teammate Sadio Mane in the final of this year’s Africa Cup of Nations in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde. Salah, playing for the Egyptian national team, edged past hosts Cameroon in a penalty shootout, putting him up against his Liverpool teammate Mane, playing for […]
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Sat 05 February 2022: Beijing reported a pickup in new COVID-19 cases among those in China for the Winter Olympics on the day the games kicked off, highlighting challenges to contain the virus as more participants arrive. Official data showed 45 new cases were identified on February 4, more than double the previous day’s tally and compared […]
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Thu 03 February 2022: Dissidents join rights groups in warning against any effort by Beijing to use Games as ‘sports-washing opportunity’. After he was arrested at the age of 20 in China’s Xinjiang and eventually escaped to Turkey in 2005, all Kuzzat Altay wanted was to live in peace in the United States, where he […]
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Mon 24 January 2022: Dozens of activists from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic group marched in Istanbul, asking for a boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month in protest of the Chinese government’s treatment of the minority. Protesters gathered outside the Turkish Olympic Committee building in Istanbul on Sunday, carrying blue-and-white flags of the […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: After former teammate Paul Adams accused him of racism, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has charged Mark Boucher, the men’s national team coach, with gross misconduct. The allegations are based on the findings of the Social Justice and Nation (SJN) Building Ombudsman, who is investigating past allegations of discrimination within the sport’s […]
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