The World Cup Trophy was presented to President Sahle-Work Zewde at the Palace soon after its arrival.FIFA World Cup Trophy has arrived in Addis Ababa on Tuesday ahead of the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar in 2022.Ethiopia has been the first destin…
BOSTON — The daffodils have sprouted, the fall foliage has all been raked away, and the Boston Marathon is back in the spring where it belongs. The world’s most prestigious marathon will return to the streets from Hopkinton to Copley Square on April 18, three years after the last Patriots Day race and six months after […]
BOSTON — Evans Chebet of Kenya won the Boston Marathon on Monday as the race returned to its traditional Patriots’ Day spot in the schedule for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The men’s lead pack of about 20 winnowed to two as it came out of Heartbreak Hill, then Chebet pulled […]
Six international football stars – including the first Syrian refugee to play in the German Bundesliga – are joining forces with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to raise funds for people fleeing conflict in Ukraine. UNH…
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Demeke Mekonnen has congratulated all Ethiopians, Ethiopian athletes and the athletics community for the stunning results achieved in the 18th World Athletics Indoor Championships.The 18th World Athletics Ind…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has congratulated Ethiopians for the astonishing results registered by the Ethiopian athletes in the 18th World Athletics Indoor Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.“I express my delight that Ethiopia finished first in the …
The fledgling Basketball Africa League tipped off its second season in Dakar, Senegal, on March 5, 2022, with a dozen men’s club teams from as many African countries vying for the 2022 BAL championship title.Senegal’s Dakar Université Club and Guinea’s…
Kenya and Zimbabwe have both been suspended by the world’s football governing body, FIFA, owing to government interference in the operations of the national football federations. Nairobi and Harare dissolved their federations late last year and replaced them with government-appointed officials. The suspension, overshadowed for now by Russia’s dramatic banishment from virtually all international sport, will hit the two countries in the pocket and […]