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FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers: Falconets Draw Burundi

Web News 9 June 2023 813 0

Nigeria’s national under-20 women’s football team, the Falconets has been drawn to face Burundi in the second round of the 2024 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers. The draw was officially conducted by the Confederation of African Football, CAF in Cairo, Egypt. The draw produced some Continue Reading

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2022 WAFCON: S. Falcons Falter as Debutants Botswana Top Group C

Web News 5 July 2022 592 0

Nigeria’s Super Falcons have lost their opening match at the ongoing 2022 Women’s African Cup of Nations, WAFCON, holding in Morocco. The Super Falcons fell by 1-2 to perennial rivals South Africa in the Group C match while Burundi were hit 4-2 by Botswana. Two quick-fire goals from the South Africans through Jermaine Seoposenwe in […]Continue Reading

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Burundi’s Evariste Ndayishimiye is Sworn in as President

Web News 18 June 2020 637 0

Burundi’s newly elected president, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has been sworn in two months earlier than planned. No foreign heads of state were present when he took the oath of office in the administrative capital, Gitega, where he pledged to defend the nation’s interests and unify its citizens. The fast-tracked ceremony comes after his predecessor Pierre Continue Reading

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Nkurunziza Death: Burundi Court Rules to End Power Vacuum

Web News 13 June 2020 618 0

Burundi’s top court has made a ruling aimed at ending the power vacuum created by the sudden death of President Pierre Nkurunziza on Monday. The Constitutional Court said President-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye should be sworn in as soon as possible. Legally, the Speaker of parliament, Pascal Nyabenda, should have become the interim leader. But the cabinet […]Continue Reading