BY NATNAEL YEBIO The tournament has been special throughout, the camaraderie between players and teams, the different culture on display spoke volumes. Eritrea was greeted in the tunnel by the Ethiopian players after their win over Sudan. The Sudanese did the same the very next day, this time they greeted their close neighbors South Sudan.
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BY NATNAEL YEBIO The final round of CECAFA’s under 15 boys challenge cup group-stage fixtures in match-day 10 kicked off at 2 o’clock between Ethiopia and Tanzania. Coach Solomon Meka brought on his second string of players for this one, with the likes of goalkeeper Kirubel Gebreyesus, Hamza Habtamu, and Korme Tamirat getting their first […]
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BY NATNAEL YEBIO Match day 8 of the CECAFA U15 ongoing tournament in Eritrea saw group B leaders Rwanda take on Tanzania. This was going to be a close one between the two. Rwanda beat South Sudan and Ethiopia 3-0 respectively, in their first two matches.
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BY NATNAEL YEBIO The CECAFA under-15 tournament currently underway in Asmara, Eritrea is beginning to take shape with the boy’s competition heading into its fourth day of matches. Monday saw Uganda take on Tanzania. Uganda had won their opening match against Ethiopia on Saturday, a match that witnessed the stark difference in physic between both […]
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Rwanda and Uganda have both denied they have signed an agreement with Israel to accept African migrants. ‘Our open door policy only applies to those who come voluntarily’ BY TESFANEWS * ARwandan government minister has denied his country signed a secret deal with Israel to take in deported African asylum seekers against their will. On Twitter, Olivier […]
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BY YVONNE RARIEYA | CGTN AFRICA The governments of Rwanda and Uganda are denying any deal with Israel to host thousands of African migrants told to leave that country in the next three months or face incarceration. Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority this week called on migrants from Sudan and Eritrea to leave “to their […]
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AMISOM is in a severely compromised position due to funding cuts. How long will it be politically and perhaps militarily sustainable for AMISOM to remain in Mogadishu? By Deutsche Welle (DW), Ethiopian troops previously assisting the internationally-funded African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) were suddenly withdrawn to Ethiopia a few days after the Ethiopian government […]
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By TesfaNews, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi arrived on Sunday morning to Uganda in an official one-day visit. The visit comes after Al-Sisi received an official invitation from his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, according to a statement issued by the presidency.
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