Sub-Saharan Africa

The senior police officer leading security planning for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa is to deliver a keynote address at the influential International Sports Security Summit at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London on Thursday.

A new elite cycle race, the Tour of South Africa will be held for the first time later this year. The seven-day event will start on 18 November 2007 with 20 teams of 6 riders taking part.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) agreed a deal with Yellow Pages to become its national sponsor for the domestic track and field season.

The British & Irish Lions appointed Accelerate as its exclusive commercial broker and sponsorship managers for the 2009 tour to South Africa.

The winners of the major contracts for work in South Africa ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup are to be announced before the end of the year, according to the country’s deputy minister of finance.

FIFA has rapped out a warning to South Africa to get work started on the venues it intends to use for the 2010 World Cup.

Cricket Kenya and Nimbus Sport agreed a long-term deal for Nimbus to manage the commercial rights of Cricket Kenya.

TSE Consulting and JAPPO (Dakar, Senegal) announced an agreement of mutual support for the African International Sports Convention (CISA) to be held in Dakar, Senegal from 1-3 February 2007.

Telkom Business signed a three-year deal to sponsor golf’s Women's World Cup of Golf.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is to sign a marketing and broadcast rights contract with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the African Cup of Nations, Ghana 2008.

FIFA may intervene to help resolve the battle over which company has won title sponsorship of the Nigerian Premier League.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter again dismissed fears that the next World Cup could be moved from South Africa and said the 2010 hosts were further along at this point than Germany was four years ago.

Taj TV agreed a deal with US satellite TV provider DIRECTV to produce its new Cricket Plus Channel.

The FIFA Emergency Committee suspended the Kenya Football Federation (KFF), having determined that the agreements signed by the KFF in order to resolve the situation of Kenyan football have not been respected or only marginally implemented, and that fundamental principles such as the respect of sporting rules, the integrity of competitions, and FIFA’s Statutes, regulations and decisions have been regularly violated or ignored by members of the Kenyan football family.

Gauteng province, Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa has fought off stiff competition from several European and Middle East rivals to win the rights to host the world’s largest soccer exhibition, Soccerex, from 2007 to 2009.

The organising committee behind the 2010 FIFA World Cup says costs of staging the event have rocketed from 2.3bn rand ($303,670m) to 12bn rand ($1.58bn).