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February 2024

  • Stanley Nwabali goes the right way and makes a save during Nigeria’s penalty shootout win.

    Nwabali’s shootout heroics against South Africa send Nigeria to Afcon final

  • Ivory Coast's supporters celebrate after their dramatic win over Mali.

    Hope and miracles: Afcon’s unlikely semi-finalists carry weight of history

January 2024

  • Tunisia's Montassar Talbi following their Africa Cup of Nations exit

    Afcon roundup: Morocco win keeps host Ivory Coast alive as Tunisia exit

    Earlier, Namibia qualifed for the last 16 for first time after holding Mali, while South Africa go through in second place from Group E
  • DR Congo players celebrate after scoring against Morocco

    Afcon roundup: Morocco held by DR Congo, 10-man Zambia deny Tanzania

    Morocco were held to a 1-1 draw by DR Congo – who missed a penalty – while Tanzania recovered from their coach being banned to hold Zambia 1-1 and South Africa thrashed Namibia 4-0
  • Deon Hotto scores Namibia’s late winner against Tunisia.

    Afcon review: Namibia’s Hotto stuns Tunisia for first win at finals

    Deon Hotto scored in the 88th minute to give Namibia victory against Tunisia while Bertrand Traoré earned Burkina Faso victory against Mauritania

December 2023

  • André Onana

    Afcon 2024 squads: Onana makes cut for Cameroon but Choupo-Moting dropped

    Cameroon coach Rigobert Song included the Manchester United goalkeeper André Onana, but dropped Bayern Munich striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting when he named their squad

July 2021

  • Team GB’s perfomance lodge

    Six Team GB athletes forced to isolate after Covid scare before Olympics

    Six athletes and two members of staff from Team GB have been forced to self-isolate in the Olympic Village after close Covid contact on the flight to Tokyo

November 2020

  • Anele Ngcongca, seen here playing for South Africa in 2015 against Senegal’s Sadio Mané, won 53 international caps.

    Former South Africa defender Anele Ngcongca dies in car accident

    Former South Africa international footballer Anele Ngcongca has died in a car accident, his club confirmed on Monday

July 2020

  • Dean Furman

    Dean Furman: 'I'd love to see more Jewish footballers. We're few and far between'

    The midfielder, who started his career at Chelsea, is back in the UK after five years in South Africa. He accepts it will be tough to find a new club but tells Jacob Steinberg he hopes to inspire aspiring Jewish players

November 2019

  • (Clockwise from top left) Iceland will be up against it in Turkey, Aaron Ramsey returns for Wales, Kosovo’s key man could be Atdhe Nuhiu, Michael O’Neill bids farewell and Guinea look to Naby Keïta.

    Sportblog
    Euro 2020 qualifiers and international football: 10 things to look out for

    Aaron Ramsey returns to Wales after a year out, Naby Keïta must step up for Guinea and Iceland will face a frosty reception

July 2019

  • Africa Cup of Nations 2019 - Quarter Final - Nigeria v South Africa<br>Soccer Football - Africa Cup of Nations 2019 - Quarter Final - Nigeria v South Africa - Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt - July 10, 2019 Nigeria’s William Troost-Ekong celebrates scoring their second goal REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

    Nigeria into Africa Cup of Nations semis after late winner against South Africa

  • South Africa head coach Stuart Baxter, centre, celebrates with his players after the win over Egypt.

    South Africa’s Stuart Baxter: ‘We can’t give the country hope’

  • South Africa’s players congratulate Thembinkosi Lorch (right) after he opened the scoring in the dying minutes.

    Egypt 0-1 South Africa: Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 – as it happened

  • Thembinkosi Lorch scores for South Africa

    Africa Cup of Nations: Hosts Egypt stunned by late South Africa strike

  • Cameroon to face Nigeria in Afcon last-16 as Ghana and Benin also progress

  • Africa Cup of Nations: Senegal's Sadio Mané scores two after missing penalty

  • South Africa 0-1 Morocco: Africa Cup of Nations 2019 – as it happened

  • Joel Tagueu, pictured in action for Portuguese side Maritimo last year, was withdrawn from Cameroon’s squad before they play their first Afcon match on Tuesday.

    Africa Cup of Nations: Cameroon’s Joel Tagueu out after ‘heart defect’ detected

    An ‘anomaly in his coronary artery’ – a possible life-threatening defect – was identified by Cameroon’s team doctor before the side’s first game on Tuesday
  • Goalscorer Jonathan Kodjia celebrates with Traoré at the final whistle.

    Ivory Coast 1-0 South Africa: Africa Cup of Nations 2019 – as it happened

    A second-half winner from Aston Villa striker Jonathan Kodjia was enough to give the 2015 champions an opening win
  • Nelson Mandela celebrates as South Africa’s captain, Neil Tovey, lifts the African Cup of Nations trophy in 1996.

    ‘Mandela brought extra pressure’: the story of South Africa’s Afcon triumph

    Bafana Bafana had a president to please and rugby side to follow as 1996 Africa Cup of Nations hosts, as this book extract tells
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