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The Sharqiya women's field hockey team has won five of seven national championships and became African champs in 2019

Sports

In Egypt’s Nile Delta, women’s field hockey team upholds ancient mantle

Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta may not be the obvious destination for field hockey, but a women’s team is blazing a trail in a region...

AFPMarch 21, 2023

Senegal celebrate with the trophy after winning their first Africa Cup of Nations title

Sports

Senegal declares national holiday to celebrate Cup of Nations win

Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their...

AFPFebruary 6, 2022

Egypt's forward Mostafa Mohamed reacts during the Group D Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2021 football match between Egypt and Sudan in Cameroon, on January 19, 2022

World

Game’s up: Egyptian arrested for taking footballer’s place at exam

A young Egyptian man scored an own goal by pretending to take a university exam for professional footballer Mostafa Mohamed, currently playing for the...

AFPJanuary 25, 2022

World

Egypt court upholds 2012 football riot death sentences

An Egyptian court Tuesday upheld death sentences against 11 football fans over a February 2012 riot in the eastern city of Port Said that...

AFPJune 9, 2015