FT: Uganda 🇺🇬 0 Senegal 🇸🇳 1 💠 Uganda: Denis Onyango, Murushid Juuko, Hassan Wasswa, Bevis Mugabi, Godfrey Walusimbi, Khalid Aucho, Mike Azira, Abdu Lumala, Emmanuel Okwi, Farouk Miya & Patrick Kaddu 💠 Senegal: Amigo Alfred Gomis (GK), Youssouf Sabaly, Kalidou Koulibaly, Sadio Mane, Idrissa Gueye, Cheikhou Kouyate (C), Papa Ndiaye, Henri Saivet, Ismaila …
Read More »Mane misses penalty, scores twice as Senegal qualify
Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Liverpool star Sadio Mane scored twice after having a penalty saved as Senegal defeated Kenya 3-0 in Cairo Monday to book an Africa Cup of Nations last-16 place. The Champions League-winning forward had a timidly-struck first half penalty saved by Patrick Matasi before making amends with …
Read More »Uganda to take on Senegal next, DRC advance in AFCON
Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Senegal humiliated Kenya 3-0, to advance as second team in their group and book a July 5 Africa Cup of Nations last-16 date with Uganda Cranes. Uganda Cranes qualified as 2nd in Group A despite a 2-0 loss to Egypt, but the Senegal result ensured …
Read More »Taboo-breaking TV soap on sex and women has Senegal in a lather
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Cheikh hoists his second wife Mareme onto his shoulder and carries her to their rose petal-covered bed, where he lays her down. The frolicking couple embrace and…. what happens next is left to the viewer’s imagination as the camera suddenly switches to a pair of white …
Read More »Senegal replace Tunisia as top-ranked African team, Uganda Cranes 16th
Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Senegal replaced Tunisia as the highest ranked African national team when the monthly statistics were released by FIFA Thursday. The Senegalese rose from second place on the back of a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying victory in Equatorial Guinea during November. Tunisia lost …
Read More »Mane signs for ‘a long time’
Mane signs new long-term deal with Liverpool London, United Kingdom | AFP | Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has signed a new long-term contract with the Premier League giants, the club announced on Thursday. The 26-year-old joined Jurgen Klopp’s side from Southampton in June 2016, and has scored 40 goals for …
Read More »US approves $550 mln aid to boost Senegal electricity
Washington, United States | AFP | The United States on Wednesday announced $550 million in assistance to Senegal to help the fast-growing country meet rising demand for electricity The Millennium Challenge Cooperation, a US government body created in 2004 that awards grants to countries that commit to good governance and …
Read More »W.Africa security forum opens amid concerns over G5 Sahel force
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | A two-day African security forum was set to open in Dakar on Monday amid concerns about funding for a much-trumpeted initiative to bind five Sahel countries into an anti-terror force. Less than a quarter of the roughly 400 million euros ($455 million) pledged for the …
Read More »Senegal sets higher bar for presidential bids despite protests
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Senegal’s parliament on Thursday passed a law setting a higher bar for presidential candidates after protests that saw police fire tear gas on demonstrators, with dozens arrested according to the main opposition party. The change to the electoral law, approved by 120 of the body’s 165 …
Read More »Rising Senegal politician Khalifa Sall gets 5 years for fraud
Dakar, Senegal | AFP | Leading Senegalese politician Khalifa Sall was handed a five-year jail term for fraud on Friday, a sentence that will rule him out of presidential elections due next February. Sall, 62, who is mayor of Dakar, had denied the charges against him as politically motivated. He …
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