Al Ahly chairman Hamdi to retire

South Africa captain Graeme Smith will retire from international cricket after the third Test against Australia.

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said the people do not want him to retire although he does not “need power”.

Burundi is among African nations that are part of a “very worrying trend” of leaders ignoring or circumventing term limits, the US envoy to the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The Uganda People’s Defence Force has approved the retirement of at least 1,400 soldiers, military sources said.

All-rounder Jacques Kallis will quit the South Africa Test team after the Boxing Day match against India.

The Nation Media Group’s Editorial Director, Mr Joseph Odindo, will retire next month after more than two decades of journalism leadership at the biggest media house in East Africa.

>A senior presidential adviser on defence, Gen Salim Saleh, has said he will not seek the renewal of his contract-- which expires in March next year-- citing old age.

African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa choose the continent's oldest head of state, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, as chairman of the AU for the coming year.

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CA Chairman Samuel Sitta
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