The Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) has confirmed that the once-troubled Darfur region in western Sudan will host the 2013 Cecafa Club Championships next month.

The football body said that Democratic Republic of Congo side St. Eloi Lupopo will take part in the event.

Cecafa Secretary General Nicholas Musonye also told BBC Sport that "a team from Eritrea is yet to confirm".

Musonye said that Darfur is 90% ready to host the event, but for only two of the three groups.

"Two football stadiums in Al Fashir - Al Nuggaa [capacity 15,000] and Al Fashir [45,000] - were of impressive quality and so were hotel accommodations and transport," he said.

The Council of East and Central Football Association (Cecafa) finally confirmed that the regional Kagame Club Championships will take place in June.

Rogers Mulindwa, the Cecafa Media Officer told MTNFootball.com that they have finally drawn the programme to have the tournament in the later part of June after two matches in the 2014 World Cup qualifier have been played.

The regional Kagame Club Championships attracts the League winners in all the 12 Cecafa member nations that include; Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan.

“We cannot say announce which country will host the event at this moment, but in the next two weeks we should announce the sponsors and hosts,” explained Mulindwa.

Covering an area of 23,000 square kilometres and home to 830,000 people, the small east African nation of Djibouti has been a member of FIFA since 1994.

It is little surprise then that the national team finds itself in the lower reaches of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, down in 202nd place to be exact.

Yet despite their modest global standing, Djibouti do not lack ambition, as Souleiman Hassan Waberi, the newly elected president of the country’s football association (the FDF), told FIFA.com on his visit to Zurich. 

Elected to the post on 10 November last year, Waberi was accompanied at FIFA headquarters by FDF Secretary General Hassan Mohamed Kamil and the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport Dr Djama Elmi Okie.

Defending champions Young Africans of Tanzania Mainland looked better than in their previous games when beating Rwanda’s APR 2-0 in Cecafa Kagame Club Cup action at the National Stadium on Friday.

In the other match of the day, Uganda Revenue Authority beat AS Port of Djibouti 3-1.

Preliminary round matches of the 12-team competition -- one guest team and the rest from the Cecafa [Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations] -- will end on Saturday with the qualifiers of the three-team Group ‘B’ being decided.

Wasteful Simba returned to winning form after thumping Ports of Djibouti 3-0 during their Kagame Cup Group A match at the National Stadium yesterday.

The victory means Milovan Cirkovic's boys stand a better chance of advancing to the quarterfinals that will kick off on Monday.

The Djibouti side has a mathematical chance to reach the quarterfinals, but will have to record a big margin win over URA and pray for Simba to lose their final group match against AS Vita of DR Congo.

In an earlier fixture, URA kept their winning run going after thrashing the Congolese outfit 3-1 in an exciting match to book their place in the quarterfinals.

Feni Ali brace was enough to give the Ugandan side a deserved win over 2011 finalists Simba in an entertaining match at the 60,000-seater stadium, a day after another Tanzanian side and defending champions Yanga fell by the same margin to Atletico of Burundi.

Meanwhile, Azam FC launched their Kagame Cup debut with a 1-1 draw against Zanzibar envoy Mafunzo in a group B encounter at the Chamazi Stadium in the city yesterday, while Vita Club of Congo demolished Port of Djibouti 7-0 in the early kick-off staged at the same venue.

The Simba-URA game started at a cracking pace with both sides to draw the first blood and succeeded in creating several half chances that none of the two teams could translate into goals.