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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Dr Patrice Motsepe has inaugurated the CAF satellite office in Cote d’Ivoire on Monday, 04 April 2022. The event occured as apart of preparations ahead of TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations 2023 gain momentum. Also Read : CAF RELEASED DATES FOR 2023 AFCON TO TAKE PLACE IN IVORY COAST This is the second time that CAF has opened a satellite office in the host country to ensure better coordination between CAF, LOC and Government. The first one was in Yaoundé ahead of TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021. Also Read : CAF IS DELIGHTED…

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has named former TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) winners Lucas Radebe and Salomon Kalou as the two draw assistants for the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations, Cote d’Ivoire 2023 group stages draw on Tuesday night next week. Radebe and Kalou The draw will be conducted live at 17h30 GMT at SuperSport studios in Johannesburg, South Africa with the qualifiers to start in June 2022. Also Read : CAF ANNOUNCES DATES FOR AFCON, WOMEN’S AFCON AND CHAN DRAWS Ex-South Africa international defender Radebe and former Cote d’Ivoire striker Kalou will join CAF Director of Competitions…

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has revealed his half-time pep-talk in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinal second leg game against Atletico Madrid in Spain on Wednesday evening. Guardiola told City website that he forewarned his players to expect the worst in the second half. The Premier League champions endured a frustrating second half and held on to force a 0-0 draw. “I didn’t expect anything else,” he said. “We talked about it at half, ‘get ready for the worst.” City sailed through to date Real Madrid in the semifinal courtesy of the first leg 1-0 win. Guardiola said his players…

Egypt’s U17 girls have arrived in Abuja for the first leg of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup third round match against Nigeria’s Flamingos on Sunday. Both teams were unsuccessful in their bids for the flagship FIFA World Cup later this year, but they are attempting to make amends by purchasing tickets for the U17 Women’s World Cup, which will also be held in India this year. The Flamingos, who beat their DRC counterparts 8-0 on aggregate (3-0 in Kinshasa and 5-0 in Benin City) last month, will advance to the last round of the qualifiers if they beat their…

© Reuters/MAXIM SHEMETOV FILE PHOTO: Russia’s Finance Minister Siluanov attends a session of the VTB Capital Investment Forum “Russia Calling!” in Moscow JAKARTA (Reuters) – G20 host Indonesia said on Thursday Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov had confirmed he plans to attend virtually next week’s meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 major economies. Indonesian finance ministry official Wempi Saputra also told a briefing that Jakarta was considering whether to invite Ukraine to the meeting, which will be held on April 20 in Washington “to discuss the impact of the conflict in Ukraine on global…

© Reuters/Sputnik Photo Agency Russian President Putin and his Brazilian counterpart Bolsonaro attend a news conference in Moscow BRASILIA (Reuters) – Russia has asked Brazil for support in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the G20 group of top economies to help it counter crippling sanctions imposed by the West since it invaded Ukraine, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov wrote to Economy Minister Paulo Guedes asking for Brazil’s “support to prevent political accusations and discrimination attempts in international financial institutions and multilateral fora.” “Behind the scenes work is underway in the IMF and…

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Powerful explosions were heard in Kyiv early on Friday, and air raid sirens blared across Ukraine as residents braced for new Russian attacks after Moscow’s lead warship in the Black Sea sank following a fire. The explosions appeared to be among the most significant in Ukraine’s capital region since Russian troops pulled back from the area earlier this month in preparation for battles in the south and east. © Reuters/STRINGER FILE PHOTO: Russian missile cruiser Moskva is moored in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of SevastopolUkraine claimed responsibility for sinking the Moskva, saying the Soviet-era flagship of…

© Reuters/MATTHEW CHILDS Europa League – West Ham United Training(Reuters) – West Ham United manager David Moyes wants his team to think of themselves as favourites to win the Europa League after they reached their first major European semi-final in 46 years with victory at Olympique Lyonnais on Thursday.West Ham stunned the French side 3-0 in the second leg to advance 4-1 on aggregate and set up a semi-final against Eintracht Frankfurt. Frankfurt were also the opposition in the semi-finals of the 1976 European Cup Winners’ Cup, West Ham’s last major European semi. “We’re not favourites, but I want the…

Video Player is loading. Pause Current Time 0:00 / Duration 2:42 Loaded: 18.54% Unmute 0 LO Captions Fullscreen On Location: April 13, 2022 Click to expand Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to resolve his forcible touching and sex assault case in Manhattan, where prosecutors accused the actor of groping three different women. Until now, Gooding had denied the charges, all misdemeanors, and the defense contended Gooding was unfairly tarnished in the fervor of the #MeToo era. Gooding pleaded guilty to forcible touching, a class A misdemeanor, the top count he faced and also admitted to two other incidents of…

Jon Henley and Julian Borger 8 hrs ago Short-staffed Australian airports in chaos as flights depart without any luggage Iraqis queue for fuel as stations protest government Moscow has said it will be forced to strengthen its defences in the Baltic if Finland and Sweden join Nato, including by deploying nuclear weapons, as the war in Ukraine entered its seventh week and the country braced for a major attack in the east. However, the Lithuanian defence minister, Arvydas Anušauskas, claimed on Thursday that Russia already had nuclear weapons stored in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Lithuania and Poland.…