At least two persons died and three others were wounded in a grenade attack on a house where young Somalis were secretly watching a world cup game in the Elasha biyaha neighborhood south of Mogadishu last night.

Caster Semenya was yesterday cleared to return to track and compete as a woman by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

FIFA has decided not to impose sanctions on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) after the country’s president Goodluck Jonathan reversed his decision to ban the national team from international competitions.

The Somali football federation has vehemently welcomed the reinstatement of the country’s sports minister Khadija Mohamed Diriye over the weekend.

Knowledge bank: This paper, by Professor Michael Schatzberg examines the microcosm of football by looking at the complicated relationship between the state, non-political societal organizations, and international institutions exemplified by a case study of the political fall of Denis Obua, long-serving president of the Ugandan Football Federation (FUFA).

The pensioner was talking himself into a rage. “Football is becoming too commercialized”, he scolded. “The young people today are too focused on money”. In his time, Eusébio da Silva Ferreira argues, everything was better. Back then, you focused on the game.

Somali football referees will have voting rights in the future soccer elections in the country.

Pierre Bordry, head of the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) has expressed concerns over UCI’s newest anti-doping measure, the biological passport.