Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Cameroon's national rugby team arrives in Lusaka Thursday for a world cup qualifying match against Zambia on Saturday in the copper and cobalt mining town of Chingola. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya, Tunisia and Algeria will battle it out in an Africa Zone Men's World Championship volleyball qualifier scheduled 7-11 August in Algiers. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Even if members of the Senegalese Football Federation do not acknowledge the qualification of the national team, the "Lions", to World Cup finals as a fresh start, they do not deny that it is a springboard for reorganisation from the bottom. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has promised to help the country's football team to achieve its goal during its preparations for the 2002 World Cup competition in South Korea/Japan. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Three Nigerian athletes have threatened to renounce their nationality in favour of taking those of Portugal, Canada and Great Britain, respectively, press reports said Tuesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Kenya Ladies Hockey Association (KLHA) is seeking financial aid from the world hockey governing body - the International Hockey Federation - to facilitate its participation in September's World Cup qualifier in France. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's football administrators said Tuesday they planned to introduce compulsory doping tests for all players to comply with international standards and practice. Full text...

Abidjan- Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) -- Heavy rains which fell the whole day on Abidjan did not prevent Senegalese nationals living here to celebrate their national team's qualification for the finals of the 2002 World Cup. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria Monday named an 11-strong team of mostly sprinters to represent the country at the eighth World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada next month. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Morale is reported low among Kenyan athletes in camp for next month's World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada after the Kenya Amateur Athletics Association (KAAA) dropped two world-class runners for failing to meet last Thursday's deadline for moving in. Full text...

Oshakati- Namibia (PANA) -- Seven boxers, including a woman, were at the weekend crowned best boxers at Namibia's inter- regional boxing tournament in Ongwediva. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Two days after Namibia suffered a crushing defeat in the World Cup qualifying match, the country's top soccer administrator Monday announced that no foreign coach would be hired to train the national team. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Senegal's first time qualification for the World Cup, to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea in 2002, is a great lesson for Kenya in particular and eastern Africa in general. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya - (PANA) Kenya's Safari Rally has o-nce again lived up to its reputation as one of the world's toughest motor rallies. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A strong performance by main rivals Toyota saw Team Total AMG Honda having to settle for the lesser placings in rounds 11 and 12 of the Midas Production Car Championship at AA Kyalami the weekend. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The streets of Dakar were empty on Saturday afternoon while the Senegalese national football team were playing their last World Cup qualifier against Namibia in Windhoek, but the capital suddenly teemed with celebration fifteen minutes after the final whistle. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- As part of efforts to develop talents, the world's football governing body, FIFA is to build a regional soccer education Centre in the Gambia, a Gambian football official has said. Full text...

Abidjan- Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) -- The Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) has refuted allegations that FIF officials struck a deal that compromised the country's chances at qualifying for the 2002 World Cup finals. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Victoria Moradeyo of the Nigerian Army has set a new national record of 4:21. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The final countdown to this weekend's crucial 2002 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Ghana begins Sunday, when members of Nigeria's Super Eagles to arrive at the team's camp in the southeastern city of Port Harcourt. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Felix Kobena, the upcoming tennis star from Cote D'Ivoire, has powered his way to the semi-finals of the International Tennis Federation junior championship being hosted by Zambia in Lusaka. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Namibian Harry Simon's gamble to relinquish the junior World Boxing Organisation's middleweight world title for the vacant middleweight crown paid off handsomely when he defeated Frenchman Hacine Cherifi in a 12-round contest at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum in Bayoman, Puerto Rico, Sunday morning. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- The Zambian soccer team known as the Chipolopolo (Bullet) has been drawn against Angola in the semi- finals of the regional Confederation of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Castle Cup to be played in August. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- A rousing welcome awaits Les Lions of Senegal Sunday in Dakar after their emphatic 5-0 win over Namibia's Brave Warriors in Windhoek Saturday to qualify for the 2002 World Cup. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- InterWorld Sports Communications of the United Kingdom will from next year take over the management of Kenya's annual Safari Rally. Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigerian sports officials said they would not be able to guarantee the security of Liberian coach/player George Weah if he chooses to be a spectator at the 2002 World Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Ghana next weekend. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco (PANA) -- Twenty-eight countries from four continents are represented at the Princess Lalla Meryem tennis grand prix, which started Saturday at the Al Amal sports complex in Casablanca. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Morocco's 1500m world record holder and reigning world champion, Hicham El Guerrouj, will Sunday in London face his 2000 Sydney Olympics conqueror, Kenya's Noah Ngeny, for the first time since last summer's games in the 1500m final. Full text...

Algiers- Algeria (PANA) -- Fans have billed the Saturday match between the national squads of Algeria and Egypt as an encounter to be filled with revenge crowned by sportsmanship. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Kuwaiti Eisa al Dashti's Friday's withdrawal from the race for the presidency of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), virtually leaves Africa's acting IAAF President, Lamine Diack, as the sole candidate for the post. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Having associated goats with sizzling roast meat feasts, who would ever thought that one day the horse race tracks would ever be taken over by the tiny animals. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Defending champion Richard Burns was the earliest casualty at this year's Safari Rally which started in Nairobi Friday morning. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Prolific Manchester United striker Andy Cole has donated 19,000 dollars to a Zambian charity dealing with orphaned children. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan star athletes Noah Ngeny and Tecla Lorupe have been dropped from the team to next month's World Championship in Canada after defying a directive to return home. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- Yves Mohammed Paraiso, a former chairman of Benin Karate Federation, has been elected a Vice-President of the Union of African Karate Federations (UAKF). Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- This year's Safari Rally starts Friday at Nairobi's Kenyatta International Conference Centre with 42 drivers gunning for top honours. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- League leaders Kumasi Asante Kotoko beat King Faisal 1-0 to extend their lead in Ghana's Premier Soccer League to five points but the troubles of Accra Great Olympics continued as thy were humbled 2-0 at home by Goldfields. Full text...

Monrovia- Liberia (PANA) -- About two million US dollars was expended by Liberia to participate in the World Cup and African Nations Cup qualifying rounds, press reports said Thursday. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia has picked a 22-man squad to prepare for the match against Cameroon in the 2003 World Cup Rugby qualifying series starting 28 July. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) will finance the construction of a training centre in Cape Verde through the "Goal" project, an official source said in Praia. Full text...

N'Djamena- Chad (PANA) -- Three Chadian boxers, selected to represent the central African country at the Francophonie Games in Ottawa, Canada, have failed to travel for lack of visas. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya will host the Africa handball club championship in December, the Kenya Amateur Handball Association confirmed Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- At the end of a gruelling battle between two of Africa's greatest women's volleyball nations lasting more than two hours at the weekend, the partisan crowd went into a song and dance to celebrate Kenya's victory. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup tournament has been re-scheduled from October to December in Kigali, Rwanda. Full text...

Accra- Ghana -- Ghana's Black Stars coach Fred Osam Doudo has cautioned Nigeria's Green Eagles to be ready for a tough battle of survival when the two national soccer teams meet later this month. ) Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The recent transfer of three Kenyan football players to Egypt's Ismailia has sparked off controversy pitying the players' club Mathare United against the Kenya Football Federation (KFF). Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The general manager of Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, scene of a stampede in April which killed 43 people and left more than 150 injured, said Tuesday that he was confident that sufficient security measures were in place on the night of the fateful match. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenyan athletes who do not return home by Thursday to start preparations for the August World Championship in Edmonton, Canada will be dropped from the team. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Some 80 young tennis players from 14 African and four foreign countries would on Thursday begin a four-day championship in Lusaka, aimed at entrenching them in the game. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Romania's Mihaela Melinte, the world record holder in the women's hammer, has been found guilty of a doping offence for nandrolone. Full text...