Oran, Algeria (PANA) - The Young Pharaohs of Egypt on Saturday beat the Black Satellites of Ghana 5-4 on penalties, after finishing 1-1 in regulation and extra time play, to win the 2013 African Youth Championship in Algeria. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Nigeria's Umar Aminu, who scored two goals against Mali in the third-place match at the 2013 African Youth Championship in Algeria on Friday, has emerged the leading goal scorer, with four goals, going into Saturday's final day of competition. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - After two weeks of competition, the 2013 African Youth Championship is Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Nigeria's head coach John Obuh said he is ''pleased'' with his team's third place finish at the 2013 African Youth Championship due to round off in Algeria Saturday (30Mar) Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Nigeria made up for its failure to defend its title by beating Mali to finish third Full text...

Lome, Togo (PANA) - At the end of its fact-finding mission to Togo, a delegation of the World's Football Governing Body (FIFA) on Thursday announced the imposition of an audit Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Egypt's Monem Hamid Mahmoud and Assifuah Ebenezer of Ghana, with three goals each, are the leading top scorers at the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship (AYC) in Algeria. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Nigeria and Mali will clash later Friday in the match for third place at the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship (AYC) in Algeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Prospective African referees and assistant referees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are to undergo training in Casablanca, Morocco, 27-30 April, the world soccer's governing body, FIFA, has announced. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Mali's coach Moussa Keita has said his team lost to Ghana in the semi-final of the ongoing 2013 African Youth Championship in Algeria because it lacks creativity. Full text...

Oraan, Algeria (PANA) - Ghana and Egypt will meet in the final of the 2013 African Youth Championship on Saturday in Algeria after defeating Mali and Nigeria respectively in their semi-final match played on Tuesday. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - Some 53 countries have confirmed their participation in the seventh Francophone Games, slated to be held from 7 to 15 September in Nice, southern French, the Secretary General of the International Francophone Organization (OIF), Abdou Diouf, told PANA on Monday. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Curepipe Starlight took the lead in the Mauritian first division soccer league after beating ASVP 1-0 in the 15th round of matches played over the weekend. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following are the full results, and updated standings, of the third set of matches played over the weekend in the second round of the African qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Full text...

Kumasi, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Sunday thrashed Sudan 4-0 in their Group D 2014 World Cup qualifying match played at the Kumasi Sports Stadium. Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Tanzania's national team, Taifa Stars, beat Morocco's Atlas Lions 3-1 in a 2014 World Cup qualifier played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Sunday. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - With the conclusion of the group matches and the emergence of the Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Following are the results of matches played on Saturday in the African qualifying series for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil: Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - A goal each by man-of-the-match Thabo Matlaba and striker Bernard Parker on either side of the half gave South Africa a 2-0 win over visiting Central African Republic in group A of the African qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A dying minute equaliser from Nnamdi Oduamadi saved Nigeria from a humiliating defeat in the hands of visiting Kenya, as both teams drew 1-1 on Saturday in the qualifier for the 2014 FIFA World Cup played in Nigeria's southern city of Calabar. Full text...

Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday thrashed Gambia 3-0 in their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match played in Abidjan. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Defending African Youth Champions (U-20), the Flying Eagles of Nigeria, breezed into the semi-final of the 2013 Orange CAF U-20 championship when they beat DR Congo 3-1 in their last group B match played at Ahmed Zabana stadium in Oran. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The following are the results of some qualifying matches for the 2014 World Cup played on Saturday. Full text...

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Qatar's 2022 World Cup organizing committee has reiterated to the European Football Union (UEFA) boss, Michel Platini, that it is ready to host the tournament in summer in line with FIFA’s decision. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana’s Joseph King Kong Agbeko on Friday night won the IBO Bantamweight title when he beat Colombia’s Luis Melendez in 12 rounds in Accra. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Egypt completed a clean sweep of their group games with a comfortable 1-0 win over Benin on Friday in Group A of the 2013 Orange CAF Under-20 Championship in Oran, Algeria. Full text...

Oran. Algeria (PANA) - With one semi-final slot already taken by Egypt, three other teams in group A will be battling for the group's sole remaining slot Friday when the final group A matches are played at the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship in Algeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Thursday denied it maltreated the Kenyan players and officials who arrived in the country on Wednesday for Saturday's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria on Saturday Full text...

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An inspection team from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) arrived in Libya Wednesday to inspect facilities there and determine the suitability or otherwise of the North African country to host continental competitions. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has written to world soccer's governing body FIFA and its African counterpart, CAF, to protest what it described as shoddy handling of the Kenya national football team, Harambee Stars, by the Nigerian federation. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Action is set to resume this weekend in the African qualifying series for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, with the third set of matches in the second round of the qualifiers due to be played across Africa. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Harambee Stars of Kenya arrived in Nigeria's economic capital city of Lagos Wednesday, ahead of Saturday's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles of Nigeria in the southern city of Calabar. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Defending champion Nigeria narrowly escaped early elimination from the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship, when it beat Gabon 1-0 in their second group B match at Oran, Algeria, on Wednesday night. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - More than a month after winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa, the Super Eagles of Nigeria on Wednesday received 25 million naira (about US$156,000) and a plot of land (for each member) from the government of Cross River State in Southern Nigeria. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Mali has become the second team after Egypt to qualify for the semi-final of the 2013 Orange CAF U-20 Championship following a 2-1 win over the Democratic Republic of Congo at Ahmed Zabana stadium in Oran on Wednesday. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Defending champion Nigeria takes on Gabon in a must-win match later Wednesday in group B of the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship in Algeria. Full text...

Ain Temouchent, Algeria (PANA) - Egypt has become the first team to advance to the semi-final of the ongoing 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship in Algeria, after beating the hosts 1-0 in their second group A match here Tuesday night. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African national squad, Bafana Bafan, is training in Cape Town ahead of the team’s crucial 2014 World Cup qualifying match against the Central African Republic on Saturday. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) – Ghanaian international and AC Milan midfielder, Kevin-Prince Boateng, will meet the chairman of the World football governing body, Joseph Sepp Blatter, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich on Friday to discuss the best way to fight racism in football, official sources told PANA on Tuesday. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Ghana's Black Satellites snatched all three points at stake when they beat Benin 1-0 Tuesday evening. as the 2013 African Youth Championship (AYC) continues in Algeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Botswana Government have signed the host agreement for the 2nd Africa Youth Games, to be held in the capital city of Gaborone in 2014. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Ghana faces Benin in a West African derby while Egypt battles host Algeria in an all-North African affair Tuesday, as the 2013 African Youth Championship (AYC) continues in Algeria. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The first leg, first round matches of the 2013 CAF Champions League were played across Africa over the weekend. Full text...

Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - ASPL 2000 took the lead in the Mauritian first division soccer league after its 1-0 win over Savanne SC in the 14th round of matches played over the weekend. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Medeama SC on Sunday maintained its lead in the Ghana premier football league with a 1-0 victory away to King Faisal in Kumasi. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - DR Congo, making its debut at the 2013 African Youth Championship, played a barren draw with Gabon in group B of the tournament in Oran, Algeria, Sunday. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - Defending champion Nigeria lost 0-1 to fellow West African Mali in their Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba has pulled out of the 2013 Virgin London Marathon with a shin injury, the organisers announced in a statement obtained by PANA here this weekend. Full text...

Ain Timouchent, Algeria (PANA) - Ghana, the most successful team at the two-yearly Under-20 African Youth Championship (AYC) since 1991, started off poorly Saturday at the ongoing 2013 edition of the tournament in Algeria, losing 1-2 to Egypt in the second group A match. Full text...

Oran, Algeria (PANA) - As Nigeria opens its title defence against fellow West African Mali Sunday, the second day of the 2013 Under-20 African Youth Championship, Nigeria's head coach John Obuh says the status of the team as defending champion would not count for anything. Full text...