African Nations Cup, Group B: Ivory Coast 2 Burkina Faso 0, Sudan 2 Angola 2
Preview of Thursday's Group B clash between Sudan and Angola in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
Preview of Sunday's match between Ivory Coast and Sudan - the opening Group B match of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
Sportsday Live which featured the latest football transfer news, updates from Gary Speed's inquest, plus more.
Sportsday Live featuring the latest football transfer news, updates from Gary Speed's inquest, plus more.
Gary Al-Smith wonders whether sport can unite Sudan...
Sportsday Live featuring the latest from the Australian Open, the second Test between England and Pakistan, the golf from Abu Dhabi, transfer news ahead of deadline day and Olympics news.
Sportsday Live featuring the latest from the Australian Open, the second Test between England and Pakistan, the golf from Abu Dhabi, transfer news ahead of deadline day and Olympics news.
Burkina Faso kept its place at the African Cup of Nations after sport's highest court dismissed an appeal by Namibia over an ineligible player on Tuesday. The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport said it confirmed the Confederation of African Football's decision in November to reject Namibia's appeal over the eligibility of Cameroon-born defender Herve Zengue.
Gabon gets their African Nations Cup campaign underway on Monday, aiming to emulate co-hosts Equatorial Guinea by winning their opening match.
The media response to sheep shearing’s potential as a Commonwealth Games demonstration sport, if not the Olympics, has gone international. “Shearing as a demonstration sport has gone viral,” says Jeanette Maxwell, Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre chairperson.
Hosted by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations began without defending champions Egypt, Cameroon and Nigeria, meaning that the trophy will witness a new winner for the first time in 20 years -- unless Tunisia win it.
Preview of Thursday's Group B clash between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
All the action from the quarter-finals at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
A soccer miscellany compiled by MARY HANNIGAN
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Angola say they remain confident their striker Nando Rafael will be cleared to play at the Africa Cup of Nations.
[Balancing Act] London - At the end of 2011, there were the first signs of smartphone use on SMS: for the first time in some countries, rather than the volume of SMS growing inexorably, it declined for the first time. Russell Southwood looks at how wider use of mobile Internet may affect SMS volumes in Africa and at two of the new generation of interfaces designed to make it easier for Africans ...
FRANCEVILLE, Gabon (AP) - With soccer reeling from the violence in Egypt, players on the other side of the continent at the African Cup of Nations tried to make sense of the "death and sadness" now gripping their sport.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The riots that killed 74 people in Egypt were sickeningly familiar for soccer: a rush to the field by fans, fighting, a deadly stampede - scenes replayed over and over at stadiums around the world. This time, however, there were important differences.
