When will Time for African teams come?

 Constituent Assembly (CA) committees have sent letters to the Assembly chairman, Mr Samuel Sitta, seeking extension of time to discuss two contentious chapters of the second Draft Constitution.

>The wait is over for Tanzania’s envoys in the Confederation of African Football club competitions. In a few hours, they will swing into action and, hopefully, prove their worth in their preliminary round first leg matches.

During warm up matches by Brazil bound World Cup finalists two weeks ago, one incident that may have escaped the scrutiny of soccer fans especially from developing countries that include Tanzania, was the raising of an ‘alert’ over alleged attempt to fix results of the friendly match between Scotland and Nigeria’s Flying Eagles.

The World Cup takes place once every four years. To put it in context, that is just one month in 6400 days.

'Mental attitudes hold African teams back'

Commenting on the elimination of Ghana from the on-going Fifa World Cup, former Super Eagles international, Jay-Jay Okocha said lack of focus that stemmed from administrative problems was one of African teams’ failre to go beyond the group stages of the tournament.

This year’s National Basketball League (NBL) will start on May 8, the Tanzania Basketball Federation (TBF) revealed yesterday.

Is it becoming more dangerous to be a reporter in Africa?

If you don’t learn from history, you’re bound to repeat it. Here in Saint-Denis, northern Paris, a history lesson is sorely needed. Thousands are gathering here for the 21st international global warming meeting.