Many of Africa’s leading soccer teams are playing away games this weekend as the fifth and penultimate round of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup and 2010 Cup of Nations soccer tournaments takes place.

The Scorpions camp is trimming with talent ahead of their Saturday cracker against the Desert Warriors of Algeria at the Independence Stadium in Bakau.

Cameroon has taken a good option towards qualification for the 8th African under 17 championship, to take place in Algeria next year. The under 17 Lions who were playing host to Gabon at the Mfandena sports complex in Yaounde, carried the day 2-0. The match counted for the first leg of the first round qualifiers for the championship. Cameroon proved to be more enterprising in the match and it was ...

The Security Council has strongly condemned today's suicide bombing at a gendarmerie training academy in Algeria that has left dozens of people dead and injured many more.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist attack that reportedly killed at least 43 people in Algeria, stressing that violence will not deter the country's people from the path of peace and reconciliation.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Jean Ping, has learned with great concern of the terrorist attack that occurred in the town of Boumerdes, in Algeria, on 19 August 2008. The attack highlights once again the gravity of the threat posed by terrorism to Africa.