•Nigeria’s Super Eagles The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that it is appealing the decision of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, which rejected its petition challenging the eligibility of certain players fielded by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) during the 2026 FIFA World Cup play-off in Rabat, Morocco, last...
•Super Eagles Four months after the disputed 2026 FIFA World Cup African play-off final between Nigeria national football team and DR Congo national football team, FIFA has sanctioned the Nigeria Football Federation and the DR Congo Football Federation following disciplinary incidents that occurred during the match. DR Congo beat Nigeria 4–3 o...
•Super Eagles Nigeria’s hopes of qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup have effectively ended after FIFA confirmed the final line-up for the inter-confederation play-off tournament, naming DR Congo as Africa’s representative. In an accreditation notice circulated to journalists ahead of the competition, FIFA detailed the tournament format and...
•DR Congo mine A series of landslides struck a militia-held mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, burying people alive and killing several, the governor and witnesses told our correspondent yesterday. Since its resurgence in 2021, the M23 group has taken vast tracts of the DRC’s resource-rich east, capturing the Rubaya mine in North Kivu [...
•Algeria’s forward Adil Boulbina scores his team’s first goal against Democratic Republic of Congo, yesterday Algeria secured a dramatic 1-0 victory over the Democratic Republic of Congo in their Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) last-16 tie yesterday, setting up a quarter-final showdown with Victor Osimhen’s Nigeria in Marrakesh on Saturday. A l...
•Super Eagles and Congo players The football federation of the Democratic Republic of Congo has strongly warned Nigeria and the Super Eagles against qualifying for the 2026 World Cup through what it described as “backdoor”. The football body was reacting to the recent petition by the Nigeria Football Federation to FIFA protesting the eligibili...
•Super Eagles players The Nigeria Football Federation has confirmed that it has initiated a probe into DR Congo’s use of ineligible players during the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, a development that could reopen Nigeria’s path to the tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. DR Congo eliminated Nigeria from the African play-offs ...
Fierce fighting took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo today as the Rwanda-backed M23 militia rapidly advances towards the strategic city of Uvira on the border with Burundi. The armed group and its Rwandan allies were around 15 kilometres (nine miles) north of Uvira, compared to around 30 km yesterday, security and military sources [&...
•Congo players celebrate goal against Cameroon Chancel Mbemba last night struck a dramatic stoppage-time winner as the Democratic Republic of Congo edged past Cameroon 1-0 to book a date with Nigeria in the final of the African play-offs for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The Leopards’ captain slipped free of his marker to meet Brian […]
An Ebola outbreak declared in the DR Congo in early September has caused 42 deaths out of 64 confirmed cases. The risk of it spreading in the region is moderate, the WHO said today. Health authorities in DR Congo began rolling out a vaccine programme against the often fatal virus two weeks ago. The highly […]

