Australian Prime Minister John Howard has banned the national cricket team from their upcoming three-match tour of Zimbabwe. The ban has now placed increased pressure on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to suspend links with Zimbabwe.

South African sports committee takes drastic measure against rugby team in order to pay attention to racial composition in the transformation process.

The troubled Cape Town preparations for the 2010 football World Cup face further problems as an environmental group opposes the construction of a stadium in Cape Town and threatens the city with legal action.

Bob Munro meets new threats from self-proclaimed KFF chairman, while Kenyan football is heading for a split.

A vice president of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) insists that it is necessary to carry out an audit of the entire administration of the LFA to determine what has happened to annual FIFA grants of 250,000 US dollars. Adolph Lawrence believes that much of the money has never reached the intended recipients.

The sports minister in the African country of Togo has refused a request from the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) to exclude a vice president of Togo's volleyball federation after he had taken part in the founding congress of the new international World Volleyball and Beach Volleyball Federation (WVBF).

Who is in charge of football in Kenya? Well, the answer differs depending on who you ask. FIFA has just backed the Kenyan Football Federation (KFF) and its attempts to re-launch a national league. Kenya’s sports minister on the other hand refuses to have anything to do with KFF officials and KFF has also been renounced by twelve of its own branches.

In Kenya political pressure is mounting on Bob Munro, the Canadian-born chairman of Mathare United. A month ago Kenya’s minister of sport Maina Kamanda threatened to deport Munro from Kenya and yesterday Munro was picked up by six immigration officers and two police men who took him to a meeting with the Principal Immigration Officer to discuss his work permit.