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Barcelona, Spain | AFP | Cristiano Ronaldo struck the winner as 10-man Real Madrid came from behind to end Barcelona’s 39-game unbeaten run 2-1 in El Clasico at the Camp Nou on Saturday. Gerard Pique’s towering header put the hosts in front on the night they honoured legendary former player …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenyan lawmakers have held the preliminary reading of a bill criminalising sports doping, just days before a deadline to avoid threatened Olympic expulsion. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) gave Kenya until April 5 to tighten its anti-doping law and provide funding for a proposed Anti-Doping …

Uganda Cranes wasted several chances as their home African Cup of Nations qualifying match against Burkina Faso ended in a goalless draw on Tuesday. The result left Burkina Faso top of Group D on head-to-head records with two games to go. Uganda, who last featured in the 1978 edition, must …

(updates via @Airtel_Ug #MujjeTulumbe) FULL TIME: Uganda 0 Burkina Faso 0 90’+3 Moses Oloya misses another. He connects inches wide off Massa’s header. Still goalless. 90’+1 Burkina’s captain Kabore sent off for second bookable offense. 90′ Masses misses as header hits post, but he was offside. FIVE minutes of added …

New Delhi, India | AFP | The group stages of cricket’s World Twenty20 have reached the half-way mark with every team having played two of their four matches. AFP looks at the lessons learned so far: – Aussies still to master Twenty20 World champions in ODI cricket and number one …

Uganda will enter a strong team of four runners in the Rio Olympics Marathon event due to the consistently good performance of the country’s long distance runners led by Stephen Kiprotich. With a slot for defending Olympic champion Kiprotich guaranteed, four other Ugandans have in the past year beaten the …