Sub-Saharan Africa

SA Rugby has partnered with SuperSport, the pay-television broadcaster that operates in sub-Saharan Africa, to revamp provincial rugby union in the country.

South African Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has said that Durban may have to forfeit its hosting rights to the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to the high cost of staging the multi-sport event.

The NBA has announced that it will return to Johannesburg in South Africa for a game later this year, while the North American basketball competition’s commissioner, Adam Silver, has warned that the league will consider state-wide discriminatory policies when assigning hosting rights for future events.

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) will continue to operate after the country’s government accepted a court ruling overturning an order to disband the organisation.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has unveiled plans for a new franchise-based Twenty20 league and is seeking overseas investment in its teams.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has imposed a two-year ban on former national team batsman Alviro Petersen in the latest punishment stemming from a match-fixing scandal concerning the 2015 season of domestic Twenty20 competition the T20 Challenge Series.

North American basketball league the NBA is set to expand its global development initiative into Africa next year by launching a new venture in the Senegalese city of Thies.

Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Phillip Chiyangwa has been elected as the new leader of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) after his South African counterpart, Danny Jordaan, withdrew from the race prior to the vote.

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) has awarded hosting rights for its 2017 European Open Championships to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia as it unveiled calendar plans for next year that will involve its first major event in Asia.

SA Rugby, the governing body of rugby union in South Africa, has unveiled a comprehensive reform package that aims to reinvigorate the sport in the country.

South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) president Gideon Sam believes his organisation has done all it can to ensure Durban retains hosting rights to the 2022 Commonwealth Games, as the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) deferred a decision on the matter by up to six weeks.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has moved to address “persistent rumours” that the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations will be moved from Gabon by maintaining that the country will host the next edition of its showpiece national team tournament.

The English city of Manchester will stage the World Taekwondo Championships in 2019 after the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) assigned hosting rights to a number of its leading events.

Distance running great Haile Gebrselassie has pledged to introduce major reform in Ethiopian athletics after being elected as the new president of his country’s national governing body for the sport.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) is planning to revamp its domestic Twenty20 competition and introduce a model by which games would be staged outside the country, according to a senior executive.

The International Korfball Federation (IKF) has opted to increase the number of participating countries at its World Championship from 16 to 20.