There's only one slot left to be filled in Africa's line-up at the 2010 Fifa World Cup, to be played in South Africa next June, and it will be taken after what has the makings of an epic playoff between Algeria and Egypt in Sudan on Wednesday.
Twenty years of hurt was put to bed as Algeria beat Egypt 1-0 to secure their place at the World Cup finals last night, sending African champions packing. Egypt broke Algerian hearts in 1989 when pipping their bitter rivals to a place at Italia 90, but Algeria banished those memories thanks to Antar Yahia's stunning strike on 40 minutes.
Algeria defeated Africa's football champions, Egypt, 1-0 today to take Africa's sixth place in the 2010 World cup.
As authorities consider suspending a whole academic year to check the spread of swine flu among school children there is a feeling that measures to contain the H1N1 virus - known to be less dangerous than the one responsible for seasonal flu - are going over the top.
The Egyptian government yesterday said it was ready to cooperate with other eight countries under Nile Basin to resolve their disagreements on the usage and access of River Nile water.
The National Organisation of Trade Unions has signed a cooperation agreement with the Egyptian Trade Union Federation. The agreement which was signed in Egypt last week is aimed at exchanging and twinning of workers.
The Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) Director, Retired Major Adamu Argungu, over the weekend warned motorists in the FCT to drive with much caution and avoid damaging street lightening infrastructures, particularly the solar infrastructure places along the Outer Northern Expressway by Onnex.
President Paul Kagame yesterday continued his four-day official visit to Egypt, paying a visit to one of the largest private land reclamation projects in Egypt, the Magrabi Farm.
A Nigerian film maker Mr. Victor Okhai has been appointed president of the jury of the international digital competition for long feature films at the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival.
Cape Town and the World Cup draw await, but there are those who still haven't earned the right to join the party. The tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who had been a sure bet to be in South Africa next June, has yet again brought forth the bitter irony that football shouldn't be a matter of life and death, a quite sobering perspective for me and you.
National soccer team, Taifa Stars head coach, Marcio Maximo said would not resign following his team's poor results in their international friendly matches in Egypt and Yemen.
ONE of Ferwafa's technical officials Aloys Kanamugire is attending a pilot course for new coaching licensing system organised by the Confederation of African Football in Cairo, Egypt.
On the heels of a federal appeals court ruling that only the U.S. Congress and the executive branch of government - not the courts - can interfere with government-sponsored "extraordinary rendition", a U.S. citizen from New Jersey is asking another court to tell the government it wasn't okay to secretly imprison and abuse him in three different African countries over a period of four months.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) last weekend embarked on a five kilometer charity walk in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital to raise 100,000 Euros (about N22 million) to help rehabilitate over 2000 street children in Egypt.
President Museveni has called on world leaders to work together to end protectionism and promote industrial growth and development on the African continent.
