Defending champions Young Africans (Yanga) will begin the defence of their Cecafa Kagame Club Championship title against Uganda's Express FC after the two sides were drawn together in Group C.

The Tanzanian league champions will be based in South Darfur and will also face Express, Ports of Djibouti and Vital'O.

Elsewhere in the draw, which was made on Tuesday at the Corinthia Hotel in Khartoum, Merriekh El Fasher, APR, Elman and Simba SC were pooled together in Group A, which will also be based in Darfur.

The other group matches in the 18 June to 2 July tournament will be played in South Kordofan.

Rayon Sports clinched the first Rwandan league title since 2004 after edging Musanze 1-0 in a Primus league match at Amahoro stadium yesterday. The win also pushes the team's tally to 7 league titles since 1968.

Rayon Sports now has a five-point lead at the top of the standings. With just one round left, second-placed Police who thrashed Amagaju 3-0 away in Nyamagabe can no longer deny Rayon the cup.

This is Rayon Sport's seventh league title, and the first under Nyanza District investment, which took control of the club in November last year and spent over Rwf. 80 million to strengthen the squad.

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.

Ex- International Eric Nshimiyimana has been appointed new Coach of Rwanda’s national team replacing Milutin Micho Srejedovic whose contract was terminated early this week.

Although as assistant Coach of giant local side APR FC, Nshimiyimana has failed to help the team to big achievements where they are struggling in the League, the former Amavubi Stars skipper was entrusted to lead the team.

The former attacking midfielder together with his assistant Jean Baptist Kayiranga will have their immediate task to lead Rwanda to next year’s African Nations Championship (CHAN) since the 2014 World Cup qualifiers is now out of their reach.

Serbian born tactician Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredejovic who this week amicably parted ways with the Rwanda Football Associations (Ferwafa) as head Coach of the national team has said he will stay in the African continent.

“I breathe and live African Football and have the passion to share my knowledge with teams in the continent,” Sredejovic told MTNFootball.com in an interview on Friday morning.

The 44-year old who has coached SC Villa (Uganda), St. George (Ethiopia), Orlando Pirates (South Africa), Young Africans (Tanzania) and Al Hilal (Sudan) before making a debut in handling a national team said although he is not the best Coach in the world, he is passionate about his work and knows there will always be pressure in coaching.

Serbian Coach Milutin Sredojevic 'Micho' has been sacked by the Federation of Rwanda Football Associations (FERWAFA). This is barely one year and five months after being appointed as the head coach of the Rwanda national team Amavubi.

“Today 16th, April 2013, Rwanda football federation decided to terminate the contract they had with MICHO for working and coaching national team AMAVUBI because he has failed to get good results during his stint with the team and it’s done legally", read a notice from the Rwanda FA on the official website.

The sack comes 24 hours after the Ferwafa General Secretary Micheal Gasingwa told the press that the FA was set to launch an investigation into allegations that Mitcho was linked to Uganda Cranes vacant job.

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.

Several of the favourites in Africa’s qualifiers for the 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil struggled on the third matchday of the group stage, now at the half-way point.

Morocco's loss in Tanzania was the biggest surprise, while 2012 African champions Zambia were held to a draw in Lesotho and Senegal and new African kings Nigeria were held at home. As only the ten group winners advance to the final round of qualifying, the dropped points will undoubtedly increase the pressure and the chances of a major shock moving forward.

The Super Eagles were expected to enjoy a bit of a walk in the park at home against their East African opponents, however, it turned out to be anything but as 20-year-old Kahata gave the visitors the lead when he scored direct from a free-kick.

Hopes of qualifying to the second round of the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign were blown off after Rwanda lost the decisive Group H match against Mali at Amahoro stadium on Sunday.

The Amavubi side was tipped to beat Eagles of Mali and their first half performance suggested that Rwanda was on the brick of registering long-earned victory at home in recent years.

Striker Meddie Kagere gave home fans something to smile about with a good finish past Mali’s goalkeeper Soumaila Diakite in the 37th minute after connecting a good cross from Cyprus-based Edwin Ouon who played a pivotal role for Amavubi in the midfield.

The Amavubi team copped a defensive blunder to suffer a 1-0 defeat to Libya in a pre-World Cup qualifier warm up match held at Amahoro stadium yesterday.

Rwanda looked headed for a home draw against Libya-ranked 63rd in the world and 13th in Africa, after playing some good football compared to past matches that have been held on home soil.

But a late strike from midfielder El Mugrabi Mohammed with a player-less after defensive kingpin Mbuyu Twite had gone out to nurse an injury ensured the higher-ranked side triumphed.

Rayon Sport defender Faustin Usengimana substituted Mbuyu but his presence never made any impact with four minutes of added time to change the scoreline.