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06/02/2012 - Interviews - Africa Cup of Nations

Give us more time, says Tunisia skipper Haggui

Tunisia skipper Karim Haggui is urging his country’s football association not to make hasty changes following the side’s elimination from the Africa Cup of Nations.

06/02/2012 - Kenya - Somalia

Kenya takes control of two key al Shabaab towns

Kenyan forces have taken over two al Shabaab controlled towns after two airstrikes left the towns of Hosingo and Badade, in Southern Somalia, under the control of Kenyan forces and the ...

06/02/2012 - Report - Africa Cup of Nations

CAN - Crowds shun top quarter-final action

Five things we learned from Sunday’s quarter finals.

06/02/2012

African press review 6 February 2012

The fate of ANC Youth Leader Julius Malema, a possible ban on foreign newspapers in Zimbabwe and who should decide when Kenya's elections take place are some of the stories making headlines in ...

05/02/2012 - Report - Africa Cup of Nations

CAN - Will Equatorial Guinea and Sudan follow through on surprise success?

Five things we learned from the first two quarter-finals:

04/02/2012 - France - Europe

Second death in France as cold kills over 260 in Europe

A second person has died in the cold snap that has hit France, as well as the rest of Europe, this week.

04/02/2012 - Interviews - Africa Cup of Nations

Tunisians to honour Port Said victims at start of Ghana match

Tunisia want to wear black armbands as a tribute to the dead at a football match in Port Said, Egypt, this week, coach Sami Trabelsi.

04/02/2012 - Interviews - Africa Cup of Nations

Seydou Keita, Daniel Cousin speak ahead of Mali-Gabon match

It will be a tale of three warhorses on Sunday when Gabon take on Mali in the quarter final of the Africa Cup of Nations.

03/02/2012 - Libya

Ex-Libyan ambassador to France tortured to death, says human rights group

US-based Human Rights Watch says Libya's ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died from possible torture less than 24 hours after he was taken into custody by a Tripoli-based militia on 19 ...

03/02/2012 - CAN blog

Burping phones and rumbling cars in Franceville

Mobile morning calls and heavy traffic at 6.45am leave your correspondent feeling afflicted.

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