Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - World soccer's governing body FIFA has named Sudanese referee Khalid Abdel Rahman to preside over the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match between Nigeria and Namibia next month. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - CAF Champions League title holder Esperance of Tunisia will start its campaign in the group phase of the prestigious competition with an away match to Nigeria’s Sunshine Stars, according to the draw for the league phase. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Senegal's president Macky Sall on Tuesday led his countrymen to pay an emotional tribute to the former skipper of the national football team Jules François Bocandé, who died on 7 May in Metz, France. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Simba of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were left looking forward to the Cecafa Kagame Castle Cup tournament as their next engagement after their heart-breaking elimination from the CAF Confederation Cup at the weekend. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's national under-18 female basketball team on Monday beat Botswana 104-22 in the second round of the zonal qualifying tournament for the Africa Cup of Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The managing board of Angolan club Benfica de Luanda has sacked Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - CAF Champions League title holder Esperance of Tunisia leads six other teams to the league phase of the competition over the weekend, when the second leg, round of 16 matches were played across Africa. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - African champion Zambia will take on host Angola Wednesday in a football friendly aimed at preparing the two teams for their forthcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has donated 500,000 naira (US$3,184) to the family of the late Nigerian football star Rashidi Yekini. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has said the list of players being circulated in the local media for the team's forthcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers is not authentic. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Tunisian club Etoile du Sahel has qualified for the league phase of the Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Four South Africans have been appointed to officiate in a 2014 FIFA World Cup preliminary competition African Zone qualifying match between Cameroon and DR Congo in Yaoundé on 2 June.
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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The Malian Tennis Federation (FMT) has announced an indefinite postponement of the 13th edition of the international Tennis tournament, originally scheduled to hold 9-12 May in Bamako, the capital. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has paid tribute to two African football legends, Rashidi Yekini of Nigeria and Jules Bocande of Senegal, who recently passed away within the space of a few days. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Despite drawing 1-1 with visiting ASB, Djoliba is still maintaining its dominance of the Malian first division football league with 47 points as matches in the 19th round of the competition were concluded across the country Tuesday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Second ECOWAS Under-23 Games, earlier fixed for 2-8 June in Accra, Ghana, have been rescheduled for 16-22 June, the ECOWAS Commission said in press statement here, received by PANA Wednesday, citing logistics reasons. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Saturday beat Tunisia 3-1 in their FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup first-leg final qualifying match played in Tunisia. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Tanzania, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda went through to the second round of the 18th African Under-20 Nations Cup qualifiers when they eliminated their opponents following return-leg matches played this weekend across Africa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President of African soccer's governing body, CAF. Mr. Issa Hayatou, has condoled with Nigeria over Friday's death of ex-Nigerian International Rashidi Yekini. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - One of Nigeria's best known footballers, Rashidi Yekini, has died at the age of 49, the local media reported Saturday, quoting the government of his home state of Kwara in central Nigeria. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula on Friday Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Thursday announced the appointment of Maxwell Konadu as assistant coach of Ghana's senior football side, Black Stars. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Kenyans Dennis Kimetto and Caroline Chepkwony are regarded as favourites for the men's and women's titles respectively ahead of Sunday 25-km road race in Berlin, Germany, called the BIG 25, according to the online RaceNewsService. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) board has fined Sharks football club of the oil city of Port Harcourt 3 million naira (US$20,000) following the attack on visiting players and officials of the visiting Ocean Boys FC of Yenagoa at the weekend, the local media reported Wednesday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's heavyweight taekwondo world champion Daba Modibo Keita will participate in the 2012 London Olympics, after the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) sent him an invitation last week, PANA learnt from the Malian Taekwondo Federation (Femat). Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's senior female basketball team, which is the African champion, has been placed in group A with the US at the forthcoming London Olympics, according to the draw held in Brazil Monday. Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The second leg match of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Orange African Youth Championship (CAN U-20) between Libya and Tunisia will be played at a neutral venue. Full text...

Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Algeria has bestowed one of its top honours on visiting FIFA President Sepp Blatter, according to African soccer's governing body CAF. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following are the full results of matches played across Africa over the weekend in the first leg, round of 16 matches in the 2012 CAF Champions League. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's Berekum Chelsea played out a goalless home draw against Coton Sport of Cameroon in the first leg of the second round in the African Champions League match played in Berekum on Sunday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Kumasi Asante Kotoko on Sunday clinched its 22nd football league title with a 0-0 draw at home to Berekum Arsenal that gave the club an unassailable lead in the Glo Premier League. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania’s Simba Sports Club refreshed the hopes of its home fans and Tanzanians in general when it beat Sudan’s Al Ahly 3-0 in the two teams’ first CAF Confederation Cup encounter at the National Stadium here Sunday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African runners on Sunday broke the men's and women's course records at the Duesseldorf Marathon in Germany, according to the online RaceNewsService. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A Nigerian premier league match between home-team Sharks of Port Harcourt and the visiting Ocean Boys of Yenagoa was cancelled on Saturday after two Oceans Boys' players were wounded in an attack in the team's dressing room, Full text...

Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Portuguese Paulo Duarte has been appointed head coach of Gabon's national football team, The Panthers, the Gabonese Radio Television (RTG) said, quoting the Sport Ministry. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Defending champion Esperance of Tunisia stayed on course for a berth in the group stage of the prestigious African club football competition CAF Champions League, after beating Dynamos of Zimbabwe 6-0 in the first leg of the round of 16 on Saturday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Frenchman Pierre Lechantre, 62, has been named Senegal’s football team coach at the end of an emergency meeting of the Senegalese Football Federation (FSF), the first deputy chairman, Louis Lamotte, announced on Friday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Hosts Niger won its second straight team event at the ECOWAS Wrestling Tournament (TOLAC), when it beat Senegal and Nigeria in that order at the eighth edition of the championships which ended in Niamey Sunday, according an ECOWAS Commission press release, received here Tuesday by PANA. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The stage is set for the start of the 2012 Olympic football tournament in both the men's and women's categories, as the draw for both competition was made in London, England, Tuesday. Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) – Djoliba FC defeated Club Olympique 2-0 in a Bamako local derby to maintain its lead on the Malian first division football league table at 43 points, six clear points ahead of second-placed Stade Bamako which walloped ninth-placed ASOM 5-0 away over the weekend. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan runners on Sunday won the 2012 London Marathon in both the men's and women's categories. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The preliminary qualifiers for the 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship (AYC) kicked off across Africa over the weekend, with nine first leg matches. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter, to be accompanied by Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou, is slated to visit Morocco and Algeria 29 April to 2 May on a programme that includes unveiling 'Goal' and 'Win in Africa with Africa' projects, CAF said in a statement obtained by PANA here Monday. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Fresh from their Babacar Fall Super Cup triumph, Angola's Petro de Luanda will start the defence of their African handball champions league title on Saturday when they face hosts E.S Regiche in Tunis. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angolan handball coach, Vivaldo Eduardo, has invited 18 members of the Angolan senior female team to camp in preparation for an international tournament in Vienna, Austria, from 18-25 May. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The announcement of the successful host cities for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations has been deferred from Friday (20 April) to 3 May by the South African cabinet, according to CAF. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola and the British Embassy in Luanda Wednesday held a ceremony in the capital city to mark the 100 days left for the 2012 London Olympics to begin. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Gambia’s Football Association on Tuesday hired Italian-born Luciano Mancini as the new coach for the West African country’s football team, PANA reports from here. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The eighth edition of the ECOWAS wrestling tournament will begin Wednesday in Niamey, Niger's capital, the organizers said in a statement. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - African soccer's governing body CAF has announced it will provide all its 54 affiliate associations with ''administrative support accessories and medical equipment'', under its “Contract with Africa” programme. Full text...