Africa
There are plenty of contenders for the crown of the hardest job in football, but things don’t get much tougher than being the coach of Sudan.
Wracked by civil war and with a government accused of complicity in genocide, Sudan has been split between its Arab Muslim north and its black Christian south for decades. Read more
Previous Dispatches from Africa
March 2009
Africa’s World Cup qualifying campaign, which also doubles up as the Nations Cup qualifiers, gets serious this weekend.
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March 2009
Tragedy again marred Africa’s World Cup qualification campaign as 19 spectators were crushed to death in Abidjan before the game between Ivory Coast and Malawi.
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March 2009
FIFA is turning a blind eye to African countries who are 'buying' their own national teams.
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February 2009
Mathare United – from Nairobi’s sprawling slums – are set to compete in the African Champions League after winning their first Kenyan championship.
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February 2009
CS Sfaxien held onto their African Confederation Cup title, beating rivals Etoile Sahel on the away-goals rule.
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January 2009
The stereotype of African football was given much credence in a CAF Champions League Final that was full of incident and real scoring chances but characterised by some woeful finishing.
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December 2008
The vultures were circling around Joel Santana almost as soon as he stepped into the breach as South Africa’s new coach but he has survived the first of what is expected to be several storms before the 2010 World Cup finals.
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