The final 15 footballers were finally selected for the Qatar Airways & Aspire Academy – Football Dreams Africa project. The project which was announced earlier in the year, was to bring together the continent’s best talents for an opportunity to prove their potential in front of bunch of…

Qatar has come under a lot of criticism in Western media for it’s ‘poaching’ attitude towards young Africans aspiring to be professional footballers. But if you ask 20-year-old Diawandou Diagne Niang if Qatar’s initiative via the recognised Aspire Academy involves deceit, he would advocate otherwise. In 2008, aged…

The poorest of all Middle Eastern countries – Yemen had been plagued with political tensions from two fronts. The internal economic and civil situation led to the Yemeni uprising that was part of last year’s larger – Arab Spring. While the other being the country’s endless war with…