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The Title That Moved: Senegal, Morocco, and the Crisis Tearing African Football Apart

Papa Gueye’s strike into the net in extra time, on the night of January 18 in Rabat, sent thousands of Senegalese supporters into streets from Dakar to Marseille. Captain Sadio Mané — veteran, icon, the man who had urged his team back onto the pitch during a chaotic walkout — lifted the Africa Cup of […]

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Young content creators engaging at AFCON 2023 event in Africa.

AFCON 2023 Fuels 300% Rise In Revenue For Content Creators Across Africa

Newly-released Data from StarNews Mobile Delivers Latest Signal of Africa’s Rapidly Emerging Creator Economy According to new data released from StarNews Mobile, Africa’s leading video streaming platform, content creators across Africa experienced a 300% surge in revenues during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), reaffirming the massive surge in consumption of hyper-localized content from the […]

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Comoros football team players in green and white jerseys on the field.

Comoros Lodges Nations Cup Complaint

The Comoros Football Federation (FFC) has lodged a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) over Cameroon’s participation at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. A post on social media from the general manager of the Comoros team, Ben Amir Saadi, confirmed the move. The Comoros believe that Cameroon should be excluded from […]

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Africa Cup of Nations trophy on the field before the match.

2019 Africa Cup Of Nations: Dates Changed For Ramadan

The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations has been delayed to allow players to rest after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The four-week long event will now kick off on June 21 with the final set for July 19 instead of June 15 to July 13. The change was announced by tournament director and former […]

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Trophy for the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament.

Egypt To Host 2019 AFCON Tournament

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has selected Egypt as the hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) after their executive meeting in Dakar, Senegal on Tuesday morning. South Africa and Egypt were the only two nations to submit bids for the tournament, which is only five months away from kicking off, after […]

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