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Iranian voters went to the polls Friday in a presidential election in which  ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi is seen as all but certain to coast to victory over his vetted rivals. After a lackluster campaign, turnout is expected to plummet to a new low in a country exhausted by a punishing regime of US economic sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic. Election placards are relatively sparse in the capital Tehran, dominated by those showing the austere face of front runner Raisi, 60, in his trademark black turban and flowing religious robe. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast the first vote just…

Ghna Football Association has charged Asante Kotoko’ Emmanuel Gyamfi for misconduct in their league game against Inter Allies. The winger was captured in a video stamping opponent player, Andy Okpe in an off the ball incident on the 64th minute in their week 29 clash with International Allies at Dewu Park. The FA has however asked Emmanuel Gyamfi to respond to the charge by writing his statement of defence before the close of Friday, June 18, 2021. Charge statement by Ghana Football Association

Ghana Premier League side King Faisal football club have appointed Nurudeen Amadu as their new Head Coach after the Turkish international Kasim Gokyildiz parted ways with the club. Nurudeen who served as an assistant Coach to Kasim Gokyildiz and now appointed as the Head Coach for the Kumasi based side. Coach Adamu is a former Head coach for the Ghana division one Akim Oda-based Kotoku Royals before joining Alhaji Grusah’s King Faisal Babies. On his appointment, Coach Nurudeen Amadu is tasked to escape relegation despite the club’s position on the league standing as management want to see the team participating…

Acting Public Relations Officer for Kumasi Asante Kotoko, David Obeng Nyarko has said the curent management are doing everything right to avoid Kotoko paying huge amounts to departed players and coaches. Mr Obeng speaking on Accra-based Hot fm revealed how bad the current management of the club feels to settle some past debts of the club, but very optimistic never again would that happen under this management. “We the current “Asante Kotoko management can boldly say that there will be no issues with contracts again as we move forward” ” We have a strong relationship with the past management, there…

Black Stars Head Coach, Charles Kwablan Akunnor has named his starting line up for Ivory coast friendly clash. Asante Kotoko’s number one shotstopper, Razak Abalora has been dropped, replaced by Lawrence Ati Zigi. Check Ghana’s full line up Lawrence Ati Zigi Andy Yiadom Baba Rahman Alexander Djiku Daniel Amartey Baba Iddrisu Thomas Partey Mohammed Kudus Andre Ayew Jordan Ayew Emmanuel Gyasi

Ghana premier league week 29, match of the week “Hearts of Oak vs Medeama Sporting club has been posteponed indefinitely. The fixture has been postponed following an ongoing renovation works at Stadium after the Ga Mashie derby between Hearts of Oak and Great Olympics which ended in 1-1 drawn game. Matches to be played at the Accra Sports Stadium have been postponed until the renovation works is completed, according to the National Sports Authority. A new date for the fixture between will be communicated in the coming days.

On the second day of the G7 summit, world leaders are expected to make big announcements on preventing future global health crises and tackling China’s expansionist Belt and Road initiative. Saturday marks the second of the three-day event, hosted by the UK in Cornwall G7 leaders will sign a declaration to try and prevent future pandemics They will unveil an infrastructure plan to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative Leaders of Australia, South Africa and South Korea are joining the G7 talks on Saturday, India will take part remotely British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is holding sideline talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President…

Italy capped a perfect night in the Stadio Olimpico with a Euro 2020 opening win over Turkey but coach Roberto Mancini warned that the road was long between Rome and Wembley. A 28-match unbeaten run has put Mancini two games short of Italy’s two-time world Cup winning coach Vittorio Pozzo’s record of 30 unbeaten games between 1935 and 1939. “We still have six games ahead of us. It’s a long way,” said the 56-year-old former Manchester City manager who took over in 2018 after Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup that year. Amid the euphoria veteran defender Leonardo…

England great Stuart Broad has urged cricket chiefs to “do away now” with the soft signal after feeling he had been denied a wicket by the current Decision Review System in the ongoing second Test against New Zealand. Broad thought he had Devon Conway caught low in the slips by Zak Crawley for 22 on Friday’s second day at Edgbaston. There was enough doubt, however, for third umpire Michael Gough to be called in by his colleagues. And when standing umpire Richard Kettleborough gave a ‘soft signal’ of not out, England’s hopes of seeing off Conway right then faded. Gough…

Polls opened in Algeria on Saturday for a tense election. It’s the first legislative polls since former long time President Bouteflika was forced from office in 2019. His replacement President Tebboune says the vote is to tackle corruption and build a “new Algeria”. Some 24 million Algerians are called upon to elect the 407 deputies of the National People’s Assembly for a five-year term. Voters will have more than 13,000 candidates to choose from- more than half of them listed as an independent. This is the first time that such a large number of independents have come forward to face…