Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian champion Werner Lassen, Saturday won the Southern Open Golf Championship played in Keetmanshoop. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- The Namibia Schools Sport Union (NSSU) Netball team was Saturday declared poised for the Confederation of Schools Sport Associations of Southern Africa (COSSASA) Ball Games that start next Wednesday in Walvis Bay. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Black Africa shook off their second best tag Saturday when they defeated United by nine goals to eight to win the Netball Club Championships at Otjiwarongo, Namibia. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- South Africa's bowling team emerged victorious in the men's category with a gold medal at the African Bowling Championship which ended in Windhoek, Namibia on Saturday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia's Chipolopolo failed to redeem national pride at Independence Stadium in Lusaka Saturday when they allowed visiting Angola to toss them out of the regional COSAFA Castle Cup competition 4-2 on post-match penalties. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan International Boxing Federation Intercontinental light middleweight champion, Achira Oure defends his crown in Spain next month. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's world 10,000m champion Charles Kamathi has been promoted to a Police corporal. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's Chief Coach Shaibu Amodu is scheduled to travel to Japan and South Korea this weekend to assess facilities for the 2002 World Cup, to be jointly hosted by the two countries, the local media reported Saturday. 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...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- "I dedicate my gold medal to the president, all Senegalese and to Africa," said Amy Mbacke Thiam, the new world champion in the 400m, Thursday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye Thursday led the nation to welcome home Amy Mbacke Thiam, the 400m world champion who won the country's first gold medal at last week's World Athletics Championships held in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania's 2001 premier football league suffered a major blow Thursday after a five-year sponsorship deal signed between the government and a beer company at the beginning of the year collapsed. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- Ghanaian League defending champions, Accra Hearts of Oak narrowed the gap with rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko after defeating Liberty Professionals 4-2 in their outstanding match at the Accra Sports Stadium Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan sports authorities Thursday appealed to the local press not to disclose athletes earnings to avoid jeopardising their security. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Head coach, Dan Muchoki has attributed Kenya's success at the just-ended World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada, to good teamwork and discipline. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's football squad lost 0-3 to Sweden in a friendly match Wednesday night, which was billed as a warm up to next year's football World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Financial troubles in Kenya's most celebrated football club, Gor Mahia, has reached a head with the abrupt resignation of chairman Fred Mwango and his replacement by Raj Binder Singh. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Organisers of the 28th Nigerian Open Golf Championship, scheduled for 19-25 November in Abuja, have doubled the prize money to 500,000 dollars, half of the competition budget, as part of efforts to attract world-class players. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana will send only a women's team to the African Softball Cup of Nations championship slated for Kampala, Uganda, later this month. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Benin would take part at the African Taekwondo Championship to hold 1-10 September in Dakar, Senegal, a source close to the Benin Taekwondo Federation said. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) is to refurbish the tartan track at Nairobi's Nyayo National Stadium. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A lone runner, Allassane Bentille, is representing Benin at the African Junior Athletics Championships that open Tuesday in Mauritius. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibia's SWABOU National Junior Golf Championships got underway on Monday with 50 youngsters teeing off at the Windhoek Country Club greens. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- The Angolan national men's team won the 21st edition of the African Basketball Championship after beating Algeria 78-68 on Sunday in Casablanca, Morocco. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's acting Chief Coach Shaibu Amodu Monday denied widely circulated reports that he had asked for a pay rise shortly after taking the country's national soccer side to the 2002 World Cup finals in July, even as he prepares to negotiate a new contract with his employers. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- The 24th round of the Cameroonian firs division football championship played on Sunday saw all the three frontrunners lose in their respective matches. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Nigeria's visiting women's national soccer team, the Super Falcons, walloped their host Zimbabwe 6-0 in a friendly international match at the weekend. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Jomo Cosmos took the last available ticket to South Africa's BP Top Eight semi-final at the weekend with an emphatic 3-0 win over fancied Cape Town side, Santos. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- African athletes Sunday bade Canada farewell bagging five medals on the last day of the World Athletics Championships held in Edmonton. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Full African Champions League first-round results of matches played over the weekend and leading goal scorers. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Total AMG Honda team reaffirmed its authority over Class B of the Midas Production Car Championship with a convincing performance in rounds 13 and 14 of the championship at Welkom's Phakisa Freeway at the weekend. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- Romania's Lida Simon won the women's marathon Sunday at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton in which four African runners placed in the top 20 of the 42-km race through the streeets of this western Canadian city. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- The opening of the games of the Indian Ocean Youth and Sports Commission (CJSOI) were still deadlocked Sunday morning in Madagascar. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- Ethiopian Ayelech Worku's third place finish Saturday in the 5000m race at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada, saved Africa's reputation from ending the day without booking a place on the winners' podium. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Sundowns of South Africa were held to a virgin tie Saturday by visiting Esperance of Tunisia in an African Champions League match at Loftus stadium in Pretoria. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- Kaizer Chiefs scored a goal in each half against Ria Stars Saturday, to progress to the semi final of the BP Top Eight Cup in South Africa. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Heritage and Sports ministry has ordered a probe on the country's football federation (KFF). Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- Kenyan middle distance runner Richard Limo Friday night won the men's 5000m race with an impressive kick at 150 metres from the finish line to earn a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- Cameroonian Francoise Mbango Etone won a silver Friday night in a hotly contested triple jump event at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian rugby fans have expressed disquiet over the manner in which the national rugby football union has handled its team ahead of Saturday's crucial World Cup qualifying tie in Kampala, Uganda. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- African officials within the Commonwealth and Olympic movements have rallied behind the Namibia National Olympic Committee in its ongoing feud with the National Sports Commission The two local sport bodies have been at each other's throat since the Commission demanded the resignation of Olymppic Committee President, Agnes Tjongarero and Secretary General, Daan Nel. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- There were no medals for African athletes Thursday night during the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- South African football defending league champions Orlando Pirates defeated Bush Bucks 2-1 in their first league match Thursday at Johannesburg Stadium, but a cloud hangs over the eligibility of their Zambian striker Dennis Lota. Full text...

Port Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritius priest Gerard Lajoie Thursday opened a bank account for collecting contributions to reward two of the country's athletes presently taking part in the World championships at Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian national and two times world boxing champion Harry Simon has announced that he would make his first mandatory World Boxing Organisation (WBO) middleweight title defence against Briton, Howard Eastman. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian national and two times world boxing champion Harry Simon has announced that he would make his first mandatory World Boxing Organisation (WBO) middleweight title defence against Briton, Howard Eastman. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Egypt have qualified for the semi-finals of the African men's Basketball Championship being held in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- League leaders, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and defending champions Accra Hearts of Oak maintained their top spots on Ghana's Premier Soccer League table on Wednesday after winning their respective penultimate matches of the first round. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- Morocco's Nezha Bidouane Wednesday shed tears of joy when she won a gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...

Edmonton- Canada (PANA) -- In a second surprising defeat in as many days, Kenyan Charles Kamathi Wednesday won the 10,000m race by beating Olympic and four-time world champion Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Full text...