African amputees seek victory, pride through soccer. By Reuters. August 9, 2007 9:10 PM UTC Updated February 12, 2007. By James Knight and Katrina Manson. FREETOWN (Reuters) - Obie ...

Soccer players from African countries devastated by civil war competed in the first All-Africa Amputee tournament in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in February, to bring prominence to the sport and its ...

Natalie du Toit, a world-class swimmer who lost her leg in a motorcycle accident, made Olympic history Wednesday in open-water swimming.

This is a video of Africa's Amputee Soccer Championships, set to music a family in an early-90s comedy might hear while enjoying the first part of their vacation.

The African sides that qualified for the 2022 Amputee Football World Cup are facing challenges. Liberia, Angola, Tanzania and Morocco will play in the tournament in Istanbul in October 2022.

ENA has been working in Sierra Leone for 10 years (the nonprofit started in 2002 and is also in Ghana, Ethiopia and Namibia) and focuses on efforts to strengthen families and individuals with the goal ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium – The IAAF ruled Monday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible to compete in the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetic racing legs give him a clear ...

Update: The South African team has won an appeal, and will be placed in the event finals. Read the updated story. LONDON — Oscar Pistorius never even got the baton. The double-amputee runner ...

Amputees are often regarded as a shameful reminder of the civil war . ... From 1991 to 2002, conflict in the West African country created some 28,000 amputees like him.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Warner Bros. has not provided African amputee kids with prosthetics, despite promises. Liz ...

Obie Sesay has stood on the pitches of Old Trafford and Anfield, the hallowed homes of Manchester United and Liverpool soccer clubs, but on the streets of Freetown he has to beg to survive.