By Aimee Lewis With six miles left, Yalemzerf Yehualaw’s race seemed to have been ruined after the Ethiopian was left sprawled on the road after stumbling over a speed bump. The incident caused her to lose time over her rivals and later she admitted the faceplant “hurt.” But it didn’t stop the 23-year-old from making history...
The Confederation of African Football is to re-open bidding for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after stripping Guinea of the right to host the competition, with Morocco among the nations set to apply. Caf president Patrice Motsepe was in the Guinean capital Conakry on Friday when he announced that the 24-team tournament will be...
British-Somali super-bantamweight Ramla Ali took little more than a minute on Saturday to win the first sanctioned female professional boxing bout held in Saudi Arabia. The 32-year-old stopped Crystal Garcia Nova after one minute and five seconds of the first round in Jeddah with a smacking right hand to the chin, sending the Dominican’s mouthguard...
ERIKA MONTOYA Saudi Arabia will have their first women’s professional boxing match on the Usyk vs. Joshua bill.With only six professional fights under her belt, Somali boxer Ramla Ali will make history in Saudi Arabia alongside Dominican Crystal Garcia. The two will star in the first women’s professional boxing match in the nation’s history. The...
By Omar Faruk MOGADISHU, Somalia — Many Somalis are reacting with horror — and a sense of understanding — at British runner Mo Farah’s tale of being trafficked to Britain as a child and forced to look after other children. Olympic champion Farah was born in present-day Somaliland, a territory by the Gulf of Aden that...
By Christy Cooney The Metropolitan Police say they have opened an investigation into Sir Mo Farah’s revelation that he was trafficked to the UK as a child. The force says specialist officers will assess information the former Olympic athlete gave in a BBC documentary. Sir Mo said he arrived under a false name after escaping...
By Ashitha Nagesh Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed. The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti. His real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin....
By Rumeana Jahangir Ask any Liverpool fan what they think of Mohamed Salah’s new contract and you will get a mixture of relief and joy that he will be “running down the wing” for another three years. In his first season after moving from Italian club Roma in 2017, the “Egyptian King” was the Premier...
by PURITY WANGUI Nairobi Jubilee governor candidate Polycarp Igathe was forced to apologize for his remarks that seemed to have irked a section of Nairobi residents. Igathe, who was accused of profiling communities, clarified that his comments should not be understood to be about individuals, but about the equitability of access to services and opportunities for work...
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir and Evans Chebet celebrate their Boston success Kenya enjoyed double success at the Boston Marathon on Monday as Evans Chebet held off two past champions to win the men’s crown and reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir captured the women’s title. Chebet won in two hours six minutes and 51 seconds to top...