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Eight people from Angola’s Cabinda enclave have been detained in the Republic of Congo since their arrest in the wake of a bloody attack on a Togolese football team bus, rebels have said.

It was double joy for the residents of Kilili Village in Eastern Province on Tuesday when they came face to face with Serena Williams, the tennis icon they only see on television.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) will next week decide on the punishment for two Algerian footballers sent off at the African Nations Cup in Angola, which could affect their chances of playing at the World Cup finals, officials said.

World cross country silver medalist Linet Masai and newcomer Paul Tanui cruised to easy victories to claim the women’s and men’s cross country national titles at the Nairobi Uhuru Gardens ground.

Ghana’s ace midfielder Michael Essien has taken to acting alongside his football profession. The Chelsea ace is playing a cameo character in a new episode of popular Hollywood buster ‘Charlie’s Angel’. He played the character named ‘Upthrotle’.

Zolani Tete faces the biggest test of his short career when he meets Richard Garcia in an IBF flyweight title eliminator over 12 rounds in Johannesburg on Friday night. The 21-year-old South African southpaw has a record of 12-0; including 11 knockouts.

With the clock ticking closer to the commencement of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India and the Africa Championship in Nairobi, Kenya, Sierra Leonean athlete, Anthony Solla-Bell said he is under intensive preparation for both games.

KENYA coach Twahir Muhiddin has scoffed off Uganda’s top FIFA rankings in the region and termed it as misleading. The two regional rivals have been pitted in Group 10 of the 2012 Africa Nations Cup qualifiers that also includes Angola and Guinea Bissau.

THE Zimbabwe senior cricket team with players still fresh from the Stanbic Bank Twenty20 Series left for the West Indies in high spirits yesterday eager to give the hosts a good run.

Rwanda’s new national team coach is not terrified to play the dreaded Elephants of Ivory Coast in their opening game of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.