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As Russia emerges as favourite to beat England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup, Keme Nzerem tours the country to look at its strengths and weaknesses.
Fifa officials have confirmed they are investigating claims that two of their committee members offered to sell their votes for who will host the next World Cup.
Jon Snow
Sooner or later there was going to be a showdown somewhere in Africa over the continental-wide Christian backed attacks on homosexuality. It seems Malawi is it. The jailing with hard labour for fourteen years of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza – after they declared their intention of sealing a civil union, has finally concentrated action…
Here’s an African love story. Adebe married her childhood sweetheart, Daniel, in Addis Ababa when she was 22. The trouble was, although Daniel was born in Ethiopia, he was of Eritrean stock, and when the two countries went to war, he was deported to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, where he was forced to join the…
Jon Snow
Make no mistake, we shall not see this again in our lifetime outside war. By 7.00am there were already 200,000 people on the Washington Mall. That’s about the number that represents a decent turnout for any other inauguration. I have traversed from Union Station to Judiciary Square, out along 4th to D and E, to…