By Peterking Quaye, Monrovia,Liberia ( Lead Sport Reporter ) – News coming from the Australian league has revealed that Liberian refugee Teeboy Kamara has signed a three-year contract with Adelaide United, a week after the 15-year-old made his debut in the first-team. Attacking midfielder Kamara, who is an Australian citizen, was part of the Australian squad at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico earlier this year. “The last eight months have been eight months of joy with what has happened with my football, but I’m definitely not going to get ahead of myself,” Kamara said. From kicking a ball... Continue Reading
SIBO BERO, a Zimbabwean medical student based in Wuhan, Hubei, China has won the public vote to be crowned Face of Zimbabwe 2012 in a tightly contested Face of Zimbabwe international pageant. The internet based competition, organised by KMG Media and sponsored by World Remit allows Zimbabweans all over the world to enter. The pageant is an international showcase of Zimbabwe’s beauty, charity and tourism with the prime purpose of marketing Zimbabwe abroad. UK based Ohleen Munyanyi was voted the 1st runner-up after garnering the second highest public votes. The teenager also won the vote of the other contestants to... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – BBC has announced Ghana and Marseille winger Andre “Dede” Ayew as the BBC’s African Footballer of the Year for 2011. The 21-year-old took over a third of the votes to follow in the footsteps of his father, Abedi “Pele” Ayew, who won the inaugural BBC award in 1991. He will be honoured as BBC African Footballer of the Year 2011 in a short ceremony ahead of Marseille’s home game against Lorient on Saturday, on his 22nd birthday. At international level, Ayew has also played a key role in ensuring that the Black Stars qualified for the... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye, Monrovia, Liberia – Ghanaian champions Berekum Chelsea have drawn Liberian side LISCR of next year’s CAF Champions League preliminary round qualifier. The Liberian team has not been in top form as they lost the 2011 President’s Cup some few days ago to LPRC –Oiler, after they started the tournament with an impressive score line. The question on the lips of many Liberian is will LISCR FC upset the Ghanaian Champions? Berekum Chelsea has also lost form after been piped by Kotoko in the Ghanaian premier league some few days ago. Whilst back in Liberia, the league has... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Gambian Correspondent – On the seventh anniversary of the gruesome murder of a beloved friend Deyda Hydara, heads of The Gambia’s various media houses and colleagues in the media have expressed concern about the slow pace of developments regarding the matter, and urged that more should be done to bring the culprit(s) to book. Born on 9 June 1946 at Dobson Street in Banjul, Deyda Hydara was gunned down by unknown assassins on the night of the thirteenth anniversary of The Point newspaper. Below we reproduce the statements by various media chiefs on the occasion of the anniversary:... Continue Reading
