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ALGERIA, EGYPT, AND UGANDA EASILY SAIL THROUGH THEIR MATCHES IN THE MORNING SESSION. The All Africa Senior championships 2022 started today with a bang with surprise wins from Reunion and Uganda. Opening the games in a colourful opening ceremony, the BCA President, Mr. Michel Bau, thanked the hosts Uganda for unselfishly standing firm and agreeing…
AASC TEAM DRAW IS OUT WITH EGYPT, ALGERIA, UGANDA, AND ZIMBABWE DRAWN IN THE GROUP OF DEATH IN THE WOMEN EVENT. It will be battle royal as Uganda, led by Husina Kobugabe, the Women’s Doubles bronze medalist in the All Africa Senior Championships 2021 individual event, face off with the giants of Africa, Egypt, in…
13 countries fight it out to represent Africa at the Thomas & Uber Cup finals in May. Egypt will be leading a record 13 countries to the most prestigious tournament in the continent for a chance to represent Africa at the Thomas & Uber cup finals in May. The defending champions were the winners in…
I was born in the village of Sifarasso, 506 km from the capital city. I am the seventh and last child. I had a rather difficult childhood between working in the countryside and going to school. Every day without school was spent in the fields where we worked quite hard. Our field was 5…
Uganda Hosts the AASC for the second year running. Best known as the pearl of Africa, its succulent bananas and pineapples, and friendly people, Uganda is rapidly turning into the hub of badminton in Africa. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, 2021 proved to be the turning point for this renowned badminton nation. Led by a…
I was sports child since my early childhood. I thrived in football in my early years, then fell in love with badminton. My career as a junior player was humble but then I got better and reached my peak after I turned 19. Beginnings The national team coach was my neighbour. I saw him…
During my father’s childhood, his parents forbade him to play sports as they thought it interfered with his education. He became a rebel who had to go into hiding to be able to train or play sports. He was a former soldier, then an accountant in the PE department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. My…
A good outing for Africans at the Uganda Para badminton international while the “German machine”, Thomas Wandschneider, steals the show Shaimaa Samy Abdellatif of Egypt produced a historic win for Africa at the just concluded Uganda Para badminton International by winning three Gold medals in the Mixed doubles WH1-WH2, Women singles WH1, and the Women…
Douayra Prisca Marie carries Ivory Coast’s dream in the Women singles WH2 Shaimaa Samy Abdellatif from Egypt and India’s Ammu Mohan are the first athletes to win Gold in the Uganda Para badminton International 2021. The pair beat the combination of the Ghanaian Adizatu Abubakari and Lucienne Akpoton Kikisagbe of Benin 21-3 21-3. Adizatu and…
Egyptian Shaimaa Samy Abdellatif leads African wheelchair players to a Podium finish. Buoyed by the exemplary performance of Mariam Eniola Bolaji of Nigeria at the Spanish Para badminton earlier in the year, Shaimaa is set to make history for the African continent as the first African to win three Gold Medals at a Para badminton…
