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Yamal Withdrawn From Spain Squad In Abrupt Injury Row

Yamal Withdrawn From Spain Squad In Abrupt Injury Row

November 11, 2025 12:49 pm

Rising Barcelona star Lamine Yamal has been released from the Spain national team’s training camp as the squad prepares for World Cup qualifiers, marking a sharp turn in relations between club and country.

The decision by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) came after Spain’s medical staff learned, with frustration, that the 18-year-old had undergone a radio-frequency procedure to treat his groin discomfort on the very day camp opened — a treatment that meant a recommended 7–10 days’ rest. The medical update arrived late Monday night, prompting Spain’s federation to pull the young forward from the squad.

Yamal had been …

Real Madrid Files Complaint After Miami Friendly Is Axed

Real Madrid Files Complaint After Miami Friendly Is Axed

October 22, 2025 6:07 pm

Real Madrid has filed two formal complaints with Spain’s Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD) in the wake of the cancelled domestic league match between Villarreal CF and FC Barcelona, which was due to take place in Miami on 20 December 2025. The club argues that moving the fixture abroad undermines competition integrity and was carried out without adequate consultation. 

According to several Spanish outlets, Real Madrid’s first complaint was submitted earlier in the year, with a second dispatch sent just hours before the cancellation announcement. In their letters, the club asserts that hosting the game in the United States breaches …

Man City Supporter Guy Bradshaw Dies Ahead Of Villarreal Trip

Man City Supporter Guy Bradshaw Dies Ahead Of Villarreal Trip

October 22, 2025 3:19 pm

Manchester City is mourning the tragic death of lifelong supporter Guy Bradshaw, who died in Spain just hours before the club’s Champions League fixture against Villarreal. The club confirmed the news on social media, expressing its condolences to his family, and described the supporter as “Once a Blue, Always a Blue.” 

Bradshaw, aged 35, had travelled with friends to Benidorm in the build-up to the tie and was found unresponsive in his apartment the morning of the match. Spanish authorities and Manchester City staff are assisting the family, with the club helping coordinate the repatriation of his body. His cousin …

De la Fuente Names Yamal In Squad Despite Flick’s Objections

De la Fuente Names Yamal In Squad Despite Flick’s Objections

October 3, 2025 10:40 am

Spain head coach Luis de la Fuente has included Lamine Yamal in his squad for upcoming World Cup qualifiers, rejecting Barcelona manager Hansi Flick’s concerns over the young winger’s fitness. The decision comes amid heated public debate regarding Yamal’s condition after returning from international duty with a groin issue. 

Yamal, 18, had missed several games for Barcelona, including matches against Valencia, Newcastle United, and Real Oviedo, following his return from Spain duty. Flick had expressed frustration with how Spain handled the player, alleging that Yamal played through pain, used painkillers, and lacked rest between games.

Despite these concerns, de la …

Italy, Spain Send Warships To Shield Gaza Aid Flotilla

Italy, Spain Send Warships To Shield Gaza Aid Flotilla

September 25, 2025 9:23 am

Italy and Spain have deployed naval ships to the Mediterranean to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a civilian aid mission bound for Gaza, after the convoy came under drone attacks in international waters.

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told parliament Thursday that a second ship was being dispatched, following Rome’s earlier decision to send a frigate in response to overnight assaults. “We have sent one ship and another is on its way, ready for any eventuality,” he said.

Spain confirmed its participation, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announcing in New York that a Spanish naval vessel would sail from …

Spain Battles Raging Wildfires As Heatwave Finally Eases

Spain Battles Raging Wildfires As Heatwave Finally Eases

August 19, 2025 5:01 pm

Spain battled multiple major wildfires on Tuesday in what has become one of its most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, even as temperatures eased across the Iberian Peninsula.

Thousands of firefighters, supported by soldiers and water-dropping aircraft, worked to contain blazes ripping through parched woodlands. Conditions were especially severe in northwestern Spain, where the national weather agency AEMET warned of a “very high or extreme” fire risk, particularly in the Galicia region.

In Galicia, fires have devastated small, sparsely populated towns, often forcing residents to act before firefighters could reach them.

Spain’s Interior Ministry announced that German firefighting units …

Spain Firefighters In Deadly Battle To Control Huge Valencia Wildfire

Spain Firefighters In Deadly Battle To Control Huge Valencia Wildfire

August 16, 2022 8:53 pm

Spain has been having it hot as some 300 firefighters have spent a difficult night in the process of trying to battle a huge wildfire which had occurred in the southeastern part of Spain which had has burnt through nearly 10,000 hectares in an area notoriously difficult to access.

The fire had been reportedly started when lightning had hit the Vall de Ebo area in the province of Alicante late Saturday and has since spread quite rapidly around the surroundings while being fuelled by strong winds, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,000 people, Valencia’s regional government said.

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Covid-19 Spain Moves To Offer 4th Vaccine Dose To Citizens

Covid-19: Spain Moves To Offer 4th Vaccine Dose To Citizens

June 17, 2022 4:41 am

Spain has concluded plans to offer a fourth dose of a Covid-19 vaccine to its entire citizens before the end of the year, Health Minister Carolina Darias has confirmed. 

Africa Daily News, New York reports that just like many other countries in the world, Spain currently offers a fourth shot to older adults and those with compromised immune systems, however, they have now resolved to extend it to everyone.

‘There will be a fourth dose for the whole population,’ Darias said during an interview with private television channel La Sexta.

The timing for the commencement of the vaccination campaign for …

Algeria Halts Cooperation With Spain Over Western Sahara

Algeria Halts Cooperation With Spain Over Western Sahara

June 9, 2022 5:40 am

Algeria has suspended a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain with immediate effect after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality in the Western Sahara dispute.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the move has now become the latest blow to increasingly fragile relations between Algiers and Madrid, which depends on Algeria for its natural gas supply.

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‘Algeria has decided to immediately suspend the treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and cooperation’ signed with Madrid in 2002, the president’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

Spain’s government said it regretted Algeria’s decision and reaffirmed its commitment to the friendship …

Buhari Embarks On state Visit To Spain

Buhari Embarks On State Visit To Spain

June 1, 2022 5:50 am

Amid the ongoing political activities in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has departed Abuja for Madrid, Spain on a state visit.

The president’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, in a statement, yesterday, said the visit is on the invitation of the Spanish President, Pedro Sanchez.

Buhari would also meet with the Head of State of the Spanish nation, His Majesty King Felipe VI during the visit.

‘During his engagements with both leaders, the Nigerian president will discuss issues of mutual interest to both countries, which will expectedly result in the signing of Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding on a wide range of topics …

Spain Reacts To Death Of Over 30 In Port Harcourt Stampede

Spain Reacts To Death Of Over 30 In Port Harcourt Stampede

June 1, 2022 5:12 am

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain have sent out a message of condolence to President Muhammadu Buhari on the recent tragedy in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Police Command of Rivers State had earlier confirmed the death of 31 persons in the stampede that occurred during a church program in Port Harcourt on Saturday.

The command also revealed that those who were injured were “swiftly evacuated to the hospital for immediate medical treatment”.

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In a message addressed to President Buhari and signed by His Majesty the King, Felipe …

Spain Claims Mobile Phones Of PM, Defence Min Were Tapped

Spain Claims Mobile Phones Of PM, Defence Min Were Tapped

May 3, 2022 1:57 am

Spain on Monday alleged that the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles were recently tapped using Pegasus spyware in an ‘illicit and external’ intervention which they are presently investigating.

Speaking in a press conference which was monitored by Africa Daily News, New York, the minister of the presidency, Felix Bolanos, said; ‘It is not a supposition, they are facts of enormous gravity’.

‘We are absolutely certain that it was an external attack… because in Spain, in a democracy like ours, all such interventions are carried out by official bodies and with judicial authorisation,’ he …

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