“The flag is no longer a cloth that flaps overhead and that is detached from the people.”Credit...Brian Otieno for The New York Times Abdi Latif Dahir is the East Africa correspondent for The ...

HOLLIE ADAMS / REUTERS A girl flies the flag for the Democratic Republic of ... xenophobic abuse and dropping out of the Miss South Africa pageant, Chidimma Adetshina takes part in the Miss ...

The International Federation of American Football has announced that Egypt will host the inaugural African Flag Football Championships this June in Cairo, as the sport builds momentum ahead of its ...

The competition will operate as a pathway to qualification for the 2026 IFAF Flag Football World Championships. "As a sport, you can't say you are a global sport and you exclude Africa.

The flag-off event was steeped in nostalgia, with Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja paying tribute to the rally's rich history. "In 1963, the South Africa Safari Rally was flagged off right here ...