Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisia and South Korea played out a goalless draw Wednesday in Tunis, in a friendly as part of their preparation for the 2002 soccer World Cup being co-hosted by Korea and Japan from 31 May. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's proud distance running tradition is well known and it is no better exemplified than by her unbroken string of team victories, stretching back to 1986, in the men's long course races at the International Association of Athletics Federations' (IAAF) world cross country championships. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The Boxing Commission of Washington, DC, has granted maverick fighter Mike Tyson, a licence to fight reigning Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis in June. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Wednesday received the visiting President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou, in Agadir, 600 km south of Rabat. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- After dragging its feet over participation in the forthcoming Africa Under-17 and Under-20 tournaments, Kenya has finally entered the continental events. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian star striker Roatson Kilambe has been pardoned by FIFA, the world soccer governing body, after he tested positive for banned substances. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has invited four more players to join 30 others earlier named for an international friendly against Paraguay in London on 26 March. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou has said that Africa's candidate for the presidency of FIFA would be nominated by the CAF executive committee due to meet in Cairo on Saturday. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's national football coach Carlos Queiroz has quit his job over a team selection dispute with his boss, Jomo Sono. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Football teams from western Kenya, Mumias and Nzoia, tightened their grip on the Premier League in a weekend overshadowed by continental matches involving Kenyan sides. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will send 24 athletes to July's Commonwealth Games to be held in the British city of Manchester, the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association (KAAA) said Tuesday. Full text...

Kumasi- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghana's Kumasi Asante Kotoko beat Athletico Sonangol of Angola 2-0 in a Confederation of Africa Football Cup Winners Cup match played Monday night in Kumasi, Ghana. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a sharp departure from the past, Nigeria has lined up six international friendly matches to prepare its national team for the 2002 World Cup starting on 31 May. Full text...

Bamako- Mali (PANA) -- Côte d'Ivoire's Alliance de Bouake on Sunday hammered Mali's Mamahira de Kati 4-0 in an African Cup of Winners' Cup tournament match played in Bamako. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Three titles will be at stake when Cotonou hosts an African boxing championship on 30 March, sources close to Benin's ministry of youth, sports and recreation revealed Monday. Full text...

Libreville- Gabon (PANA) -- Following are results of the Gabonese national football championship after the sixth round of matches played at the weekend in Libreville and in other cities: Stade d'Akébé-USM : 0-1 CMS-ASS : 3-2 Pétrosport-Wongosport : 1-0 The match between USB and AO Evizo was postponed after the latter team was involved in a road accident. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Côte d'Ivoire's ASEC Mimosa hammered FC 105 of Libreville 4-0 in an African championship tie played Sunday in Abidjan. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Fourteen teams were in action at the weekend in Togo when the national football championship league entered the fourth round. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Two Ghanaians teams who were in action Sunday in two Africa clubs cup competitions are in terribly weak positions and would need miracles to cross the first hurdle. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Monday invited 55 players to national camp to prepare for the South Korea/Japan 2002 World Cup championship, which kicks off in May. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- The Queen's baton relay kicked off from London Monday for a 92,800-km (58,000-mile) journey through 23 countries before returning to the UK in time for the official inauguration of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester on 25 July. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- East African teams posted poor results as the Confederation of African Football Inter-Club tournaments started in earnest over the weekend. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan sports administrator Dan Murunga Monday poured cold water on claims that East African soccer officials were bribed to vote for Sepp Blatter during the 1998 FIFA presidential elections. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Top honours at the Stanbic Zambia Open golf tournament were snatched by players from Zimbabwe, South Africa and Europe at the weekend as local players watched from the terraces. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Following are the results of matches played during the 13th round of the first division football championship played in various Beninese stadia on Saturday and Sunday: [ST] Group A Postel-Mogas 90 1-0 Varietes-Energie 0-0 Cavalier-Pantheres 2-0 Buffles-Etoiles 5-1 Group B Dragon-Vautours 0-0 Requins-ASJA 1-0 (match stopped by the referee in the 75th minute because stones were being thrown in the Charles de Gaulle Stadium of Porto Novo). Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- AS Vita football club of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to lodge a protest with the Confederation of African Football over cancellation of a CAF Cup Winners Cup match they were to have played in Lusaka Saturday against a Zambian side. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's AFC Leopards got off to a shaky start in the Africa Cup Winners Cup tournament when they succumbed 0-1 to Sudan's Al-Mourada in a first leg tie at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Disaster struck two front runners in the VolkswagenSure Tour Natal near Durban on Sunday when Serge Damseaux, in a Class A8 Team Castrol Toyota, and Johnny Gemmell in a Class N4 Subaru South Africa, went out of the rally in stage 15. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's Sonacos football club and Widad Athletic of Casablanca (WAC) of Morocco drew 0-0 Saturday Dakar in a first leg match of the African Cup Winners' Cup. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's Enyimba FC of Aba, Sunday defeated visiting Etoile Filante of Burkina Faso 4-0 in the first-leg, first-round match of the African Championship League. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Former Zambian national soccer team coach, George Mungwa, has died at the age of 55 in Lusaka after a short illness, his associates announced Monday. Full text...

Obuasi- Ghana (PANA) -- Obuasi Goldfields on Sunday raced into a 4-0 lead in their first-led preliminary round CAF Cup match against Satellite Club of Guinea at Obuasi in Central Ghana but saw the Guineans pluck three goals in last 11 minutes to see the match end 4-3. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The preliminary round first leg match of the CAF's Champions' League between Accra Hearts of Oak and Stade Malien of Mali ended1-1 draw Sunday in Accra. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's representative in the 2002 CAF Cup soccer competition, NPA of Warri, beat visiting Djoliba FC of Mali 2-1 in a first round, first leg match played Saturday in Lagos. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian soccer champions, Nkana United FC, easily pushed for the second-leg match after thumping Simba SC of Tanzania 4-0 in the opener of the second round of the Confederation of African Football champions' league played Saturday in Kitwe. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- South Africa's ex-international soccer stars beat their Botswana counterparts 4-0 in a historic friendly game in Gaborone, Saturday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Top runners in the Volkswagen Tour Natal in South Africa that started at Uhmhlanga Friday morning, were locked in a fierce battle at the end of the first day. Full text...

Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda's Express Football Club Saturday defeated visiting El-Mahella of Egypt 2-1, in their first leg preliminary round of the African Cup Winners encounter in Kampala. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- Angolan vice champions Atletico Sport Aviacao (ASA) host Rwanda Royal Sports football club Saturday in a match counting for the away leg of the CAF Cup competition. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Maranatha FC de Fiokpo, the only Togolese team still involved in a continental competition, will cross swords Sunday in Niamey with Niger's Nassara in a preliminary match of the Confederation of African Cup competition. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Seven countries have confirmed participation in April's Africa Zone Six golf championship to be held in Nairobi, Kenya. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Union Sportive de Beau-Bassin/Rose Hill of Mauritius is to lock horns on Sunday with Jeanne d'Arc of Reunion in a match of the 16th finals of the African Cup Winners Cup competition. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegal's France-based boxers Mamadou Thiam and Souleymane Mbaye Friday said in Dakar that they were ready to impart technical skills in the sport to fellow compatriots. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- The 20th round of Algeria's premier league championship was played Thursday without the crucial ties involving front-runners. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The bribery allegations dogging FIFA president Sepp Blatter took an interesting turn when a former East African regional soccer administrator,Sammy Obingo, denied accepting kick backs in 1998. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Cameroonian striker, Patrick Mboma has hinted on possible permanent contract with his new English premiership soccer side, Sunderland. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The International Football Federation (FIFA) has granted 400,000 dollars to the Beninese Football Federation (FEBEFOOT) to build a national football academy in Porto-Novo and Abomey, officials of the local Federation have disclosed. Full text...

London- UK (PANA) -- Cameroon's ace striker Patrick Mboma has hinted that he would like to sign a permanent contract with his new English premiership side, Sunderland. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Daryll Cullinan, the veteran batsman who quit his country's cricket side a day after he was recalled, has become a subject of national debate. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Some 17 goals were scored after the 4th round of Libya's national football championship played on Monday and Wednesday. Full text...