By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Punch
Nigeria’s Pamela Bawa and Joy Lawrence were knocked out in the women’s beach volleyball quarter-finals at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, losing 2-0 to the Netherlands’ Jara Both and Matilda de Groot. The Nigerian duo, African under-18 champions, lost the sets 21-14 and 21-16, according to Punch.
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The Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games flame arrives in Senegal and is celebrated in several countries, while Dakar prepares for the Games.
4 NovMadagascar’s U18 women win rugby sevens bronze at YOG
4 NovNigerian swimmer Aidan Dumuje-Abili fulfils dream at 2026 Youth Olympics
3 NovFaye attends wushu finals at Dakar 2026Nigerian swimmer Aidan Dumuje-Abili, 15, says competing at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games is the fulfilment of a childhood dream. He finished fifth in his 100-metre backstroke heat in 1 minute 0.79 seconds, Punch reports, quoting him after his second event at the Games.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: Punch ·
Kenya’s women’s team won the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games women’s rugby sevens tournament by beating Australia 17-12 after extra time, reports Seneweb. According to Citizen Digital, the victory gives Kenya its first gold medal in the event, after a 17-5 pool-stage defeat by Australia and a 15-5 semi-final win over Madagascar.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Source: Seneweb ·
Senegal's women's rugby sevens team lost 32-0 to Australia in its first match at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. The match was played on 2 November at Iba Mar Diop Stadium, Le Soleil reports.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: Le Soleil ·
Senegal’s women’s sevens rugby team lost 14-5 to the United States in a classification match at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar. After this defeat and a 27-7 loss to China, the Senegalese were due to face Spain for seventh place, wiwsport reports.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Source: Senego ·
Lagos plans up to 100 food-processing unitsLagos plans to establish between 50 and 100 small food-processing units around a future logistics hub to increase local processing of agricultural products. The project is part of a storage and distribution system supplied with produce from different regions of Nigeria, according to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, quoted by Vanguard.
Samson Deen calls for more support for Ghanaian amputee footballSamson Deen, president of Ghana’s National Paralympic Committee, praised Gold Fields Ghana and the Ghana Football Association for supporting the Black Challenge amputee football team. He called on sports institutions to extend such funding and recognition to other disciplines, according to 3News.The week in Africa
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