Youth Development

Mo Farah won the 10,000m gold medal at the World Athletic Championships in London.

Mo Farah and Saturdays at London’s Olympic Stadium were evidently made for each other.

FIFA MA training course for Somalia’s elite football referees has officially got underway in Djibouti on Sunday morning. The course is part of the joint FIFA/ SFF efforts intended to increase the knowledge and experience of referees in the war-torn country.

Hopes of peace are arising in Somali capital Mogadishu which witnessed the first ever peace match in more than two decades. The peace match which was mainly intended to encourage calmness in the war-torn city was co-organised by the National Olympic committee of Somalia and the mayor of the capital Mahmoud Ahmed Nur, himself a former basketball player.

With the Somali Football federation still struggling to get the country’s national facility ‘Stadium Mogadishu’ back into its hands from the AU military occupation, the country’s federal government pledged to end the AU troop presence at stadium Mogadishu. Deputy Minister for sport Bashir Mohamed Jama announced the pledge during a joint visit by the ministry and SFF officials to the site on Monday.

Double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah and his wife Tania have criticised the Government over school sport funding cuts and called on the coalition to protect the legacy of the Games.

After six days of competition in Dar es Salaam, both Kenya and Egypt have secured their places at Afrobasket Women 2013 thanks to successful campaigns in the Africa zone 5 qualifier. A disappointing performance by defending champions Rwanda means they miss out on qualifying for the Afrobasket for the first time since 2005. They had made three consecutive appearances (2007, 2009, 2011).

Salah Abdo fled his war-torn homeland with his family at age three. Now, through hard work and perseverance, he brings his basketball talents to Trinity.

The second edition of Somali regional football tournament for peace and development has failed to start on the scheduled time, due to the continuation of the presence of African Union Peace keepers at the country’s largest facility ‘stadium Mogadishu’ where the tournament was expected to kick off by 28th of December 2012, Somali Football Federation (SFF) announced here on Saturday.

Gulleh Batle FC, one of the strongest football clubs in D’jibouti has won the country’s supper cup after walloping the current champions the AS port by 2-1 in a hotly-contested match which attracted the attention of high profile officials including minister of sports Dr Jama Elmi Okieh, Minister of budgets Amarreh Ali Said, Djibouti FA president Souleiman Hassan Waberi and members of his executive committee. Tens of thousands of zealous spectators had occupied the Guled stadium hours before the match kick off. The jubilant fans were chanting slogans to support each of the clubs.