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.

The Secretary General of the Council for East and Central African Football (Cecafa), Nicholas Musonye has warned all their members to stop riding on football to instead go to other countries to seek for refugee status for their teams.

This comes in the wake of developments in Uganda last week when the government finally granted refugee status to the Eritrean national football team members who vanished in Kampala last December during the 2012 Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup.

“Let us go around our region to play and develop football instead of hiding in football and yet some people have their agendas of seeking asylum in other countries,” said a bitter Musonye on phone from the Cecafa secretariat in Nairobi.

Uganda has granted asylum to the 15 players from the Eritrea football team and the team doctor who absconded in the country in December during the 2012 Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup.

Apollo David Kazungu, the Commissioner for Refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda, said on Monday that the Refugee Eligibility Committee had found the group's claims valid and granted them refugee status.

The Eritrean team had been eliminated in the tournament in the early stages after drawing with Zanzibar 0-0, losing 3-2 to Malawi and being beaten 2-0 by Rwanda in their last match on Saturday.

The Eritrea Football Federation has withdrawn its team from the African Nations Championship tie against neighbours Ethiopia.

The Confederation of African Football has confirmed the decision but gave no reason for the Eritreans withdrawal.

On Tuesday the Ethiopia Football Federation had asked Caf for the qualifiers to be moved to a neutral venue as the neighbouring countries continue to be embroiled in a border row.

On Wednesday 17 Eritrea players claimed asylum in Uganda following the team's elimination from the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.

2013 AFCON finalists Ethiopia request CAF for neutral venues for the 2014 CHAN qualifiers against Eritrea.

Ethiopia is scheduled to travel to Eritrea in the first leg during the weekend of January 14 while the return leg is set to be played a fortnight later in Addis Ababa.

Tension currently exists between the two nations over a protracted border dispute spanning over the last 13 years.

“We want the matches to take place, but we're not willing to travel there and it is obvious their government won't allow their team to visit Addis Ababa," said Ethiopian Football Federation spokesman Melaku Ayele told the BBC.

Almost all players of the Eritrean national football team, which has been taking part in the CECAFA regional football competition, have absconded in Uganda to seek asylum.

17 players and one team doctor have “vanished” leaving behind only the head coach Ngash Teklit and his assistant; trainer of the goalkeeper, Brhane; two players and two accompanying officials.

It has become the norm for Eritrean players not to return home after a tournament and as a result the Eritrean government had started forcing team players to pay a 100,000 nakfa surety before traveling abroad.

Rwanda booked a slot in the Quarter finals of the CECAFA Tusker Senior Challenge Cup after a 2-0 win over Eritrea in a Group C match played at the Lugogo Stadium on Saturday evening.

Coming into the match second in Group C, Rwanda needed to register all the points on offer to be assured of the solid second place.

Daddy Birori got the fir chance for Amavubi but his curling effort from a tight angle was steered off the target for a corner by the Eritrean keeper Fitsum Kelati. Jean Mugiraneza headed wide a corner from Charles Tibingana as Rwanda sought eagerly from that nerve calming goal.

Chiukepo Msowoya scored a brace as Malawi bounced back from their bad start to the CECAFA Tusker Senior Challenge Cup with a 3-1 win against Eritrea to boost their chances of qualifying to the quarter finals.

The match had been delayed after a few minutes over the uncertainty of the state of the Namboole playing surface due to the rains that had hit the city all morning.

In a difficult pitch to play in, Malawi got the first goal in the 4th minute through Chiukepo Msowoya who headed in a cross from the right to give Malawi the perfect start.

Micam Mhone doubled Malwi's advantage in the 10th minute with a ferocious shot from outside the area as Malawi looked comfortable in the otherwise challenging playing surface.

The CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup saw its first barren draw of the tournament with Eritrea and Zanzibar firing blanks.

Eritrea surprised everyone managing to hold a more experienced side who looked like minnows in the match. The Eritreans though slow in their play created more flowing passes than their opponents but were never lucky infront of goal.

They created the first chance in the 6th minute through Ahmed Abdulrahman who shot over the bar after a good flick on. Captain Hermon Tecleab saw his freekick from just outside the area fly directly into keeper Mwadini Ally’s arms as Eritrea increased their attack.