APA-Dakar (Senegal) The 10th African junior judo championships start Friday in the Senegalese capital, Dakar with the participation of 17 African countries. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Maputo (Mozambique) Mozambique will spend US$50 million from its annual state budget to revamp sporting fallibilities in preparation to host the 10th All Africa Games in September 2011, All-Africa Games Organisational Committee (COJA) said in a statement on Thursday in Maputo. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Libreville (Gabon) Tunisia has qualified for the semi-finals of the 5th U-17 African men’s handball championships of Nations after smashing Morocco 39-15 on Wednesday in Libreville, Gabon’s capital. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA Abuja (Nigeria) Nigeria’s U-20 female football team, Falconets, will face Colombia with their full strength as they have no disciplinary concerns in the semi-final match to be played on Thursday in Germany, considering that all yellow cards bagged by some of the players have obliterated. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - London (United Kingdom) Ivorian striker Didier Drogba will not lplay for, at least three weeks, after undergoing "minimal invasive surgery" on Friday, his managers confirmed here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Mogadishu (Somalia) Despite lawlessness and the daily-armed confrontations in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an inter-school football competition kicked off in Mogadishu on Saturday afternoon. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Conakry (Guinea) The senior national teams of Guinea and Mali will play a friendly warm up match on 11 August at the Velodrome stadium in Marseilles, France, ahead of the qualifiers for the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2012), the Guinean Football Association told APA. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Dakar (Senegal) The 5th African Handball Nations Championships (CAN) in the men’s U-19 category kicks off on Saturday in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, with the participation of ten national squads. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Lilongwe (Malawi) The Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) will organise a semi-marathon (21km) national athletic contest on Saturday in the commercial city of Blantyre in the preparation of the Southern Africa Half-Marathon which Malawi will be hosting in September, the AAM general secretary Frank Chitembeya said on Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) The South African Football Association (SAFA) has refused to say what steps it was taking to resolve trademark issues surrounding the name "Bafana Bafana", the national football team’s nickname, APA learns here on Thursday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Mogadishu (Somalia) The Somali Sports Press Association (SSPA) on Wednesday described the election of the country’s football federation executive body, held earlier in the week, as “a major breakthrough” in Somalia. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Bamako (Mali) FIBA-Africa supervised the drawing of lots in the Malian capital, Bamako, for the 11th U-20 Africa Nations Basketball Championship for Women to be held from 29 July to 6 August in Cairo, Egypt. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) The former South African president will greet fans at Soccer City stadium at the closing ceremony, but he will likely return home to watch the World Cup final on television, according to his grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Durban (South Africa) All Spain needed was a second half header from a corner-kick to silence the German machine, and book themselves a place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup showdown against The Netherlands at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday (11 July). Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cape Town (South Africa) Deadlocked at 1-1 at halftime with Uruguay, The Netherlands came back in the second half with better ideas to beat the South Americans 3-2 in a highly exciting semifinal match played at Cape Town Stadium Tuesday night. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cape Town (South Africa) Dutch and Uruguayan fans have descended on Cape Town for their teams’ semi-final match Tuesday night, with the city’s airport welcoming a slew of charter flights and private planes for the event. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) South Africa has made good returns on the billions of dollars it has spent to host the continent’s first FIFA World Cup running from 11 June to 11 July, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) Having eaten humble pie, the Nigerian government has lifted its hasty decision to ban the national football team, the Super Eagles, from participating in FIFA and Confederation of African Football competitions in the next two years. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Lagos (Nigeria) Nigeria on Monday reversed the decision to withdraw Nigerian football teams from any international football competitions for two years some hours before the expiration of the deadline by FIFA. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cape Town (South Africa) The world football governing body FIFA on Monday stuck to its ultimatum for Nigerian rulers to reverse their decision to ban the national football team from international matches following their poor showing at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) David Villa’s 83rd goal earned Spain a berth in the semi-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup after Paraguay’s Cardozo missed a crucial penalty that would have completely changed the direction earlier of their quarter-final game played at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg Saturday night. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cape Town (South Africa) Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel was the happiest head of state in Africa when her country’s boys outclassed Argentina, beating Coach Diego Maradona’s boys 4-0, to qualify for the semifinals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in an encounter played in Cape Town on Saturday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) Ghana’s long journey to make Africa prouder in the 2010 FIFA World Cup contest ended with a penalty shootout loss (2-4) to Uruguay in an entertaining match played at Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Port Elizabeth (South Africa) Favourites Brazil were unceremoniously dumped out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup by a rampant Netherlands who came from a goal down to beat them 2-1 in the quarter-finals here on Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Harare (Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe plans to construct a major new cricket ground close to the famous Victoria Falls on the border with Zambia, APA learnt here Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cape Town (South Africa) South African President Jacob Zuma will swap his expensive business suit for a football kit when he takes part in the Special Olympics Unity Cup to be played in the southern city of Cape Town on Saturday afternoon. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) FIFA will use the 2010 World Cup quarter-final matches to fight racism in football and has called on billions of people around the world to support the campaign which starts on Friday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) FIFA’s World Cup Local Organising Committee Local Organising Committee Chief Executive Officer Danny Jordaan on Thursday said that he was confident that fellow South Africans would carry on the spirit of patriotism and nation building shown during the 2010 World Cup long after the tournament has left the country’s shores. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Johannesburg (South Africa) FIFA’s World Cup Local Organising Committee in South Africa has said that it will not to get involved in the decision the Nigerian government made to suspend the Super Eagles from international football for the next two years following the team’s poor showing at South Africa 2010. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Pretoria (South Africa) Spain, which beat Portugal 1-0 in a Round of 16 match Tuesday night in Cape Town, will meet Paraguay in the quarter-finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup set for Johannesburg on Saturday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion