World’s Biggest Ankara Festival To Hold In Los Angeles This September

The Ankara craze is definitely in vogue as more and more fashion designers and fashionistas in Africa and beyond have embraced the fabric.

DRC Missing Athlete is on “holiday”

With only four athletes for the 2012 Olympic games in London, the Democratic Republic of Congo had nothing much to show to the world. But right after the closing ceremony last Sunday, the country became the subject of headlines in mainstream media all over the world. What happened? Cedric Mandembo, a judoka who competed in the +100kg category, boxing Coach Blaise Bekwa, national athletics technical director Guy Nkita and judo coach Ibula Masengo could not be traced by both the head of the country's National Olympic Committee, Amos Mbayo Kitenge and London organizing committee officials.

London 2012: Seven Cameroon athletes go missing

YAOUNDE—Seven Cameroon athletes have disappeared while in Britain for the London Olympics, the 

Ministry of Sports and Physical Education said on Monday evening.

The seven—five boxers, a swimmer and a soccer player—are suspected of having left to stay in Europe for economic reasons.

“What began as rumour has finally turned out to be true. Seven Cameroonian athletes who participated at the 2012 London Olympic Games have disappeared from the Olympic Village,” David Ojong, the mission head said in a message sent to the ministry.