Rabat, Morocco (PANA) – The 14th African championships for senior karatekas will hold from 7 to 9 September in Rabat, Morocco, according to the president of the Moroccan Royal Federation of Karate and Associated Disciplines (FRMKDA), Mohammed Moktabil. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Japanese masters Wednesday commenced the training of over 50 Angolan karate fighters in the capital city of Luanda, as part of efforts to update the fighters' skills. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Senegal has won the first Zone 2 karate championships of the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA), taking home 10 gold medals. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian capital, Bamako, will, from 8 to 11 June, host the Zone II of the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa's (SCSA) first karate championship, a statement from the Malian Federation of Karate (FEMAKA) announced. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali has won the second edition of the Open International Karate Tournament, named after "Abdul Wahab Traoré''. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- The Mauritanian national Karate team is due in Dakar Thursday to take part in the African Zone 2 karate tournament, scheduled for 2-4 July in Senegal, PANA learnt from sports sources. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Senegal has won the second edition of the karate Open inte rnational championship in Bamako, Mali, after winning 29 medals, including 14 gold, 6 silver and 9 bronze. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya will host the Karate championships for Arab clubs from 10-11 March to which many Arab countries are expected to send teams, sports sources told PANA here on Sunday. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The first edition of Karate championships of the African Zone III will be held from 3-10 May in Abidjan, Ivoirian Federation of K arate and Associated Disciplines (FIKDA) said. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan karate team has made outstanding performance after winning ten medals in various categories in the ongoing third Arab karate championship in Syria. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Libyan national Karate team has been taking part in a five-day session with its Algerian counterpart since Monday in Algiers, Algeria, PANA reported. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) – Nine Arab countries from A-frica, the Near and Middle East are expected to participate in the Arab karate championship competition scheduled next month in Libya, informed sources told PANA here Wednesday. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libya's national karate team will participate in the Mediterranean Karate Championship scheduled 1- 4 September in Tunisia, official sports sources announced here Monday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin emerged first at the 8th African Karate Championship (UFAK Zone III) held here at the weekend with 8 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Eleven athletes, including four women will represent Togo at the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) 8th Karate Zone III Championship opening Thursday in Cotonou, Benin, officials of the Togolese Karate Federation (FTK) said here. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Togo will in August host the seventh edition of the karate championship for Zone III of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) and the Union of African Karate Federations (UAKF). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Over 700 karate martial artists under the command of four chief instructors worldwide have gathered in the South African city of Cape Town for the World Karate Championships which are being held here for the first time. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The Algerian karate-koshiki squad has won four medals in the senior category and two medals in the Under-15 category at the world championships that ended Sunday evening in Alkidiki, a suburb in Athens, Greece. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- DR Congo will field 17 athletes at a karate tournament billed for 1-5 September in Durban, South Africa, according to sources at DR Congo Karate Federation. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Gregoire Joumas has been elected as the new chairman of the Gabonese Karate Federation at the end of an extraordinary general assembly held at the weekend here. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Eleven clubs will participate in the second East African Inter-cities Karate championships slated here from 27-28 September, Uganda Karate-Do Association (UKA) Secretary General Asana Mahmoud Ulwora said Wednesday. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Kenyan has agreed to host a "reunification" Karate championship 29-31 August to revive the sport in the nine-nation African Zone 5 after a lull of over a decade, official sources disclosed here. Full text...

Nouakchott- Mauritania (PANA) -- Mauritanian karate practitioners, Ismael Traore and Nagi Ould Vihel Barka, won two bronze medals at the Dakar Karate Open held 7-10 August, sporting sources revealed here Thursday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo (Brazzaville) has won the 5th Central African Karate Championship held here last weekend after capturing nine gold medals ahead of Central African Republic (CAR) which got one gold medal and DR Congo won a bronze medal. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The 5th edition of the Central African karate championship opened here Friday with the participation of athletes from Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and DR Congo. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The fifth Central African sub- regional karate championship comes up 24-26 July in Brazzaville, sports officials said here Monday. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo's Red Devils (Karate) have won the Zone 3 tournament of the Supreme Council of Sports in Africa (SCSA) in Cotonou by getting 12 medals ahead of Nigeria, the Congolese sports ministry said Friday. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin will on Thursday host a four-day training session in Cotonou for referees and coaches in the Zone 3 of the Union of West African Karate Associations. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Karate referees and coaches in Zone III of the Supreme Council of Sports in Africa (SCSA) will take part in a training workshop from 16 to 20 April in Cotonou, Benin's business capital, official sources have told PANA. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algeria's karate squad has gone to Madrid in Spain to take part in the world karate championship set for 20-24 November, the Algerian Karate Association said. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Congo national karate teams (men and women) are expected to leave Brazzaville Friday for Madrid in Spain to take part in the 16th World Championship set for 16 to 24 November. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- The Congolese Martial Arts Federation (FECOKA-AMA) has named twenty karate competitors to take part in the 16th senior male and female world championship scheduled 16- 24 November in Madrid, Spain. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Benin has been chosen to host the 2003 Africa zonal karate championship, according to Botswana Karate Association (BOKA) public relations officer Joseph Lesenya Monday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The third African Cadets and Junior Karate championship kicks off Friday with hosts Botswana aiming to record a rare win in international sport. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Nigeria has won the just-ended 5th zone three karate championship organised in Lome by the Supreme Council of Sports in Africa (SCSA). Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Brazzaville's Karate league won the first Congolese national U-17 and U-21 championship staged 2-4 August in Pointe Noire, the national radio announced Monday. Full text...

Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- The fourth karate championship in Zone III of the Union of West African Karate Federations is underway in Niamey, Niger. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Yves Mohammed Paraiso, a former chairman of Benin Karate Federation, has been elected a Vice-President of the Union of African Karate Federations (UAKF). Full text...