The Springboks beat the All Blacks 3-1 in a historic four-test series
After losing the opener, South Africa won three in a row, finishing with a 43-28 win in Baltimore.
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Football, athletics and the African athletes competing at home and abroad: results, records, tournaments and the business of sport across the continent.
The Junior Springboks win back-to-back world titles
South Africa beat France 16-5 in Tbilisi to become only the fourth nation to win consecutive junior world titles.
The road to AFCON 2027 begins as qualifiers kick off
48 teams are chasing 21 places alongside hosts Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Kenya hosts the first FIFA Women’s Series in Nairobi
The Harambee Starlets beat India and took silver behind Australia at Nyayo Stadium.
Rwanda’s RSSB Tigers win the Basketball Africa League at home
The debutants beat Angola’s Petro de Luanda 90-88 in Kigali to become Rwanda’s first BAL champions.
Botswana hosts, and wins, at Africa’s first World Relays
The home team won the men’s 4x400m in a championship record and qualified for the Worlds in the 4x100m for the first time.
Morocco’s 115,000-seat stadium for the 2030 World Cup is 30% built
The Grand Stade Hassan II near Casablanca is designed to be the world’s largest football stadium.
Nairobi will host the 2029 World Athletics Championships
For the first time, athletics’ biggest championship is coming to Africa, in the home of distance running.
John Korir smashes the Boston Marathon course record
The Kenyan retained his title in 2:01:52, and Sharon Lokedi made it a Kenyan double.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi breaks a 27-year-old world record
The Olympic 800m champion ran 2:11.83 in Monaco, taking Noah Ngeny’s 1999 mark.
Three world records: Africa’s year in the half marathon
Jacob Kiplimo, Yomif Kejelcha and Agnes Ngetich all set world records over 21.1km in 2026.
African stars win big at the Diamond League Final
Kebinatshipi ran 43.40, Cherotich and Wanyonyi set meeting records, and Ethiopia swept the women’s 5,000m.
Mamelodi Sundowns are champions of Africa again
A Teboho Mokoena strike and a Ronwen Williams penalty save won Sundowns their second continental crown.
Chad le Clos becomes the most decorated man in Commonwealth Games history
The South African swimmer’s 19th medal came in the relay in Glasgow, 16 years after his debut.
Egypt’s Amina Orfi, 19, is squash’s youngest-ever women’s world No 1
She broke a 40-year-old record, months after becoming the youngest women’s world champion.
Safari Rally Kenya crowns a first-time winner
Japan’s Takamoto Katsuta won his first World Rally Championship round on Kenya’s famous rough roads.
Zimbabwe return to the Rugby World Cup after 36 years
The Sables join world champions South Africa at the first 24-team tournament in Australia.
Africa's first Olympic event: Dakar 2026 opens on 31 October
About 2,700 young athletes, 25 sports and three host cities: the Youth Olympic Games come to Senegal.
Cape Town becomes Africa's first World Marathon Major
The race joins Tokyo, Boston, London and the rest from May 2027, after the fastest marathon ever run in Africa.
Four African teams are heading to the 2027 Women's World Cup
Cameroon, Morocco, Algeria and debutants Malawi are going to Brazil, and Ghana and South Africa can still join them.
Sabastian Sawe breaks two hours: the first sub-2 marathon in a race
The Kenyan won the London Marathon in 1:59:30, taking more than a minute off Kelvin Kiptum's world record.
Nine African teams in the knockouts: Africa's record World Cup
Cape Verde held Spain, South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire made history, and Morocco reached the quarter-finals.
Hakimi, Semenyo and the African stars of Europe's 2025-26 season
A Champions League winner, a 17-goal breakthrough and a quieter year for Salah.
Kenya's 12 medals at Glasgow 2026, led by a steeplechase sweep
Three golds, a clean sweep in the men's steeplechase and a Games record for Faith Cherotich.
Cameroon beat debutants Malawi to win their first WAFCON
After three lost finals, the Indomitable Lionesses beat Malawi 3-0 in Rabat.
Nine months to AFCON 2027: is Kenya ready?
CAF inspectors have toured Talanta and Kasarani as Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania race to finish their stadiums.
Who won AFCON 2025? Sport's highest court hears Senegal's appeal
Senegal won the final on the pitch; CAF handed the title to Morocco. CAS hears the case on 8 October.
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