Ivory Coast beat Gambia 3-0 in World Cup qualifying on Saturday, while Ethiopia and Zambia gained crucial victories that put South Africa and Ghana at risk of missing out on football's top tournament.
Lacina Traore, Wilfried Bony and Yaya Toure scored in Gambia for the Ivorians, keeping Africa's top-ranked team in control of Group C and on course for a place in the decisive five final playoffs as one of 10 qualifying group winners.
In Group A, Ethiopia's run continued with a 2-1 win in Botswana to stay two points ahead of 2010 host South Africa and a step closer to a first appearance at the World Cup in Brazil next year. South Africa beat Central African Republic 3-0 in neutral Cameroon, but have just two games left in the group stage to overhaul a two-point deficit.
Africa's only quarterfinalist in the last World Cup, Ghana also is in danger of missing out following Zambia's 4-0 win over Lesotho - which kept the 2012 African Cup champion a point ahead of the Black Stars, who won 3-1 in Sudan on Friday....
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09:24 AM, Jun 09, 2013
London: One of two men arrested over the murder of a British soldier in a London street was detained in Kenya in 2010 on suspicion of seeking to train with an al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, Kenyan police said on Sunday. Confirmation that Michael Adebolajo was held in Kenya and deported to London will intensify calls for Britain's spy agencies to explain what they knew about the suspect and whether...
11:45 PM, May 26, 2013
Raila Odinga, beaten by Uhuru Kenyatta in Kenya's presidential election, said on Saturday that his party would contest the results in court, alleging "massive tampering" of the March 4 vote. ...
04:49 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Kenya's presidential race tightened on Friday as Uhuru Kenyatta's lead slipped to a level that could mean there is no outright winner and open the way for a tense, second round run-off against his main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga. ...
03:52 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Uhuru Kenyatta had an early edge as Kenya continued the count on Tuesday in a presidential election that brought out millions of voters despite pockets of violence that killed at least 15 people. Kenyans, who waited patiently in long lines, hope the vote will restore the nation's image as one of Africa's more stable democracies after tribal blood-letting killed more than 1,200 people when the result of the 2007 vote...
12:05 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Long lines of Kenyans queued from far before dawn as polls opened on Monday for hard-fought elections, hours after several policemen were killed in an ambush in the port city of Mombasa. The elections are the first since bloody post-poll violence five years ago in which over 1,100 people were killed, and observers have repeatedly warned of the risk of renewed conflict. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Two teams will qualify directly to the ICC World Cup 2015 to be staged in Australia and New Zealand. ...
07:02 PM, Mar 01, 2013
The device converts the power of hot water to electricity for charging mobile devices. ...
01:30 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Kenya will bid to host the 2019 Africa Nations Cup with the country eyeing the 2015 Africa Under-17 football championships. ...
05:12 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: Kenya's Edwin Kipyego won the men's elite section in the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Sunday. In the women's category, Ethiopia's Yimer Wude came out on top. Meanwhile, among the Indian participants, Rahul Kumar Pal finished on top in the men's category, while Sudha Singh won in the women's category. The marathon, which began at 6.30 am in the morning at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in central Delhi, featured...
08:59 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Robin Brown fills the position left vacant after Mike Hesson quit to take up the post of the New Zealand coach. ...
11:28 PM, Sep 08, 2012
London: David Rudisha predicted a world record and delivered with an overpowering show of front-running to win the Olympic 800-meter title. When many were hoping that Usain Bolt would set such a mark in the 200 later Thursday, the Kenyan stole some of the Jamaican sprinter's thunder at the beginning of a balmy evening suited for setting great times. Rudisha set off with his giant strides from the starting gun,...
01:43 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya won Olympic gold in the 3,000 metres steeplechase on Sunday after defending champion Brimin Kiprop Kipruto tripped up in the penultimate back straight. Kemboi, 30, a former world champion, stormed home in eight minutes, 18.56 seconds. Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad, the Beijing silver medalist, clocked 8:19.08, with another Kenyan, Abel Kiprop Mutai, taking bronze in 8:19.73. ...
03:14 AM, Aug 06, 2012
The International Cricket Council has done this due to security fears in Nairobi. ...
09:49 PM, Jun 04, 2012
The Kenyan cricket chief said that the suspected Kenyan player has not been suspended but is under investigation by the ICC. ...
04:21 PM, May 24, 2012
New Zealander Mike Hesson says he quit after his family were victims of an attempted carjacking. ...
10:13 AM, May 18, 2012
The Intercontinental Cup matches in Nairobi have been put back until September because of security concerns. ...
05:59 PM, May 16, 2012
A former Kenyan player is being investigated by ICC for interfering with matches. ...
12:12 PM, May 15, 2012
Lanet Umoja: When the chief in a western Kenyan village received an urgent call that thugs were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled. The tweet from Chief Francis Kariuki was only his latest attempt to improve village life by using the micro-blogging site Twitter. Kariuki regularly sends out...
07:33 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Mumbai: Kenya's Laban Moiben on Sunday bagged the winner's title in the 42 km men's category at the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2012 while Ethiopia's Netsanet Abeyo emerged on top in the women's category. A close second in the men's title was Raji Assefa of Ethiopia. The third position was bagged by another Kenyan, John Kyui. For Abeyo, the winner in the women's title, this was her third marathon title....
01:10 PM, Jan 15, 2012
