Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Carlos Queiroz, the beleaguered coach whose future has been in the spotlight since South Africa's poor showing at the 2002 Cup of Nations finals in Mali, would on Monday find out if he still has a job. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The East African soccer season starts in Zanzibar Saturday with 60,000 US dollars at stake. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin's first division football championship enters its second phase this weekend, an official of Benin Football Federation has confirmed. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya Police Hockey Club has been barred from the ongoing national league and other tournaments for issuing a bouncing cheque to the country's hockey governors. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Players of Togo's national football team, the Eperviers, were Friday awarded 7,000 dollars (six million FCFA) each for their participation in the just-ended African Cup of Nations tournament. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- The manager English premiership side Arsenal says he plans to demand explanation from Cameroon international, Lauren Etame Mayer for his late return to the club after the African Cup of Nations. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan tennis players will compete in next month's Money Circuit tournaments to be staged in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's representatives to the CAF Cup tournament AFC Leopards have sacked their coach and suspended nine players, accusing them of masterminding a recent boycott of Premier League matches, club officials announced Friday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Mali spent not less than 120,000 million francs (159 million US dollars) to organise the 2002 Cup of Nations finals, according to unofficial estimates. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Three-time South African premier league champions Sundowns continued to climb up the log with a midweek 4-1 win over struggling Bush Bucks. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Cameroon's ace striker Patrick Mboma has signed for English Premier League side Sunderland on loan until the end of the season, with a 4-million pound (5. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Former Malian national football team player, Lassine Soumaoro, died Monday at Point G hospital in Bamako, sources close to the Malian Football Federation said. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Mindful of the general anger against their poor performance at the just-concluded African Cup of Nations in Mali, most members of the Nigerian soccer team have flown straight back to their bases in Europe. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Confederation of African Football CAF) is increasing its annual grant to the Confederation of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) to 30,000 US dollars, a CECAFA official has said in Nairobi. Full text...

Johannesburg - South Africa (PANA) -- Four coaches have been short-listed for South Africa's Springboks rugby team's job. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour has disclosed that government is considering introducing new laws to force the selection of more blacks in national teams. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Players of the Zambia national team, now back home from the Cup of Nations finals, have lamented the quality of their kit saying they were the worst dressed at the tournament in Mali. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Members of the Management Committee of the Ivorian national football team, resigned Monday in Abidjan, a reliable source said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Football fans in Kenya have saluted Cameroon's exploits at the just-ended Cup of Nations finals in Mali, where the central African country lifted the coveted trophy for the fourth time after beating Senegal 3-2 in a thrilling final. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- While most South Africans are disappointed over their country's performance at the just-ended African Cup of Nations football tournament in Mali, many still believe coach Carlos Queiroz should lead the team to the 2002 World Cup in South Korea/Japan. Full text...

Ziguinchor- Senegal (PANA) -- Football fans in Ziguinchor, Senegal's Casamance's Administrative Centre, some 454-km south of Dakar, are disappointed at the country's defeat by Cameroon in Sunday's final of the 23rd African Cup of Nations tournament. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian football fans, after watching matches of the just-ended 23rd African Cup of Nations, have adjudged the tournament a huge success. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Although Libya did not qualify for the just-ended 23rd African Cup of Nations in Mali, soccer fans in the country followed the competition with great interest, especially Sunday's final between Cameroon and Senegal. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Thousands of jubilant supporters welcomed Senegal's national football team to Dakar Monday from the African Cup of Nations in Mali, where it clinched the silver after losing to defending champions Cameroon 2-3 in a penalty shootout. Full text...

Rabat- Maroc (PANA) -- Hassania d'Agadair remains front-runner in Moroccan national football championship after beating Kawkab de Marrakech 2-0 in the 18th round of matches played at the weekend. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African football fans hailed the 'Indomitable Lions' of Cameroon as true champions of Africa after their successful defence of the African Cup of Nations on Sunday when they beat Senegal 3-2 on post-match penalties in Bamako, Mali. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The African Football Confederation (CAF) has announced a "dream team" from the just-ended 23rd African Cup of Nation's tournament in Mali. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Cameroon's victorious national soccer squad returned home to a thunderous welcome by jubilant fans early Monday after winning the African Cup of Nations for the fourth time, in Mali. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco has crashed out of the Davis Cup World tournament after losing 2-3 to Spain, in their first-round matches played in the Spanish town of Saragossa. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Following the Super Eagles' unimpressive showing at the just-concluded African Cup of Nations tournament in Mali, Nigerian newspapers Monday gave prominent space to reports of Cameroon's historic victory, after a hair-raising penalty shootout with Senegal. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Dakar was under strict surveillance Sunday, with the authorities on the lookout for any eventualities during or after the Cup of Nations final in Bamako between Senegal and Cameroon. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's defeat Sunday at the Cup of Nations final in Bamako, Mali went down badly with fans back home. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's three time champions Sundowns rekindled their premier league title chase Sunday with an emphatic 3-0 win over Moroka Swallows. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Algerian handball team Monday starts a 10-day training camp in Aix-En-Provence, southern France, ahead of the African championship to be held 1-15 April in Morocco. Full text...

Johannesburg - South Africa (PANA) -- South African legendary WBU junior flyweight boxing champion Jacob 'Baby Jake' retires from the sport next month after 22 years in the ring. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's third-place finish at the 2002 African Cup of Nations may be good for the morale of the Super Eagles, but it was not good enough to pacify local fans angered by the team's semi-final loss to Senegal Thursday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA - Defending champions, Cameroon-'s Indomitable Lions, Sunday afternoon will face their greatest challenge yet in the 23rd African Cup of Nations when they face fellow Lions from Senegal in the CAN 2002 finals in Bamako, Mali. ) Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Premier league leaders Santos walloped Black Leopards 4-1 Saturday raising the aspirations of its coach, Gordon Igesund, to become national team trainer for the FIFA World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- President Issa Hayatou, President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has commended Mali for a successful organisation of the 23rd African Cup of Nations soccer championship, which ends Sunday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Following are facts and figures of the Mali-Nigeria classification match played Saturday in Mopti, 600 km east of Bamako: Score: Nigeria 1 Mali 0 Scorer: Yakubu Alyegbeni (29th) Yellow Cards: Wilson Oruma and Karibe Ojigwe(Nigeria) Djibril Sidibe (Mali) Turnout: 12,000 (Capacity: 15,000) Referee: Abdelhakim Shelmani (Libya) Teams: Nigeria: Joseph Yobo, Yakubu Alyegbeni, Garba Lawal, Tijjani Babangida, Sunday Oliseh, Wilson Oruma, Karibe Ojigwe, Eric Ejiofor, Victor Ikpeba, Christopher Justice, Murphy Akanji, Nwankwo Kanu (sub 75th), Finidi George (sub 89th) Coach: Shaibu Amodu Mali: Mahamadou Sidibe, Samba Diawara, Adama Coulibaly, Fousseini Diawara, Mahamadou Diarra, Bassala Toure, Mamadou Bagayoko, Soumaila Coulibaly, Djibril Sidibe, Seydou Keita, Abdoulaye Camara, Adama Diakate, Karamoko Keita (sub 31st), Mahamadou Dissa (sub 46th), Cheick-Oumar Dabo (sub 80th) Caoch: Henri Kasperczak Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Following are the fixtures for the 2004 African Cup of Nations preliminary matches released by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Bamako, Mali: Group 1 Angola Nigeria Djibouti Malawi Group 2 Guinea Liberia Niger Ethiopia Group 3 Sudan Zambia Benin Tanzania Group 4 Congo Burkina Faso Central African Republic Mozambique Group 5 Kenya Togo Mauritania Cape Verde Group 6 Zimbabwe Mali Seychelles Eritrea Group 7 Gabon Morocco Equatorial Guinea Sierra Leone Group 8 Lesotho Cameroon or Senegal Sao Tome Gambia Group 9 Libya DR Congo Botswana Swaziland Group 10 Madagascar Egypt Guinea-Bissau Mauritius Group 11 Côte d'Ivoire South Africa Burundi Group 12 Namibia Algeria Chad Group 13 Uganda Ghana Rwanda The two top teams in each group qualify for the 24th CAN 2004 to be hosted by Tunisia. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Cameroon and Senegal, which square up in Sunday's final in Bamako at the 23rd African Cup of Nations soccer tournament, had met 10 times in the past, with Cameroon recording four victories. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Nigeria, one of the pre-tournament favourites, settled for bronze after beating host Mali 1-0 in Bamako Saturday, at the 23rd African Cup of Nations soccer championship, which ends Sunday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Nigeria's Super Eagles were leading their Malian counterparts 1-0 in the first half of the third place match Saturday, at the 23rd African Cup Nations soccer tournament, which ends Sunday in Bamako, Mali. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Saturday's third-place match between Nigeria and host Mali in the current African Nations Cup tournament is generating little interest among Nigerian soccer fans, many of whom are still angry over the Super Eagles' semi-final loss to Senegal Thursday. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Egyptian Gamal Al Ghandour will be referee of the Cup of Nations final at the 26 March Stadium in Bamako, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Saturday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya was off to a good start at the ongoing Davis Cup, Africa Zone tennis tournament in Mombasa, romping to the top of Group A. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Host country Mali take on Nigeria Saturday afternoon at Mopti, 600 km east of Bamako in a match for the third place at the 23rd Cup of Nations finals. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Aloryi Moyoyo Mensah on Friday night made a quick job of it knocking out his Ivorian opponent Goba T. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- The South African city of Johannesburg will in April host the African Football Awards, sources disclosed Friday in Bamako, on the sidelines of the ongoing Cup of Nations finals. Full text...