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.

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.

Simba SC hit man Mrisho Khlafan Ngassa scored five goals assisting one of John ‘Adebayor’ Bocco’s two goals as Tanzania mauled a hapless Somalia 7-0 to book a slot in the quarter finals of the CECAFA Tusker Senior Challenge Cup.

The match was played at the Lugogo Stadium, home of Uganda Super League side Kampala City Council with the main Namboole Stadium closed  for rehabilitation after being destroyed by the rain.

Tanzania had a perfect start with Ngassa scoring his first within just two minutes of the match. The former Azam striker added his second with 24 minutes on the clock heading in at the far end from Issa Rashid’s corner.

Farid Mohammed’s goal in the 86th minute broke the hearts of a hard fighting Somalia side after they went down 1-0 at the Namboole Stadium in a CECAFA Tusker Senior Challenge Group B match on Wednesday afternoon.

This is Somalia’s second loss of the tournament after previously going down 5-1 to Burundi.

Somalia were a largely improved side from the team that lost 5-1 to Burundi in their opening match and they did well to contain the dangerous Sudan.

The Sudanese had their first chance of the match in the 6th minute. Faris Abdallah had a wonderful deliverance from a corner on the right. Mohammed El Murtada swung in a header at the near post but Somali keeper Moalim Abdulahi punched away the ball for a corner.

Sam Ssimbwa’s Somalia held on but only for the first half, as a rejuvenated Burundi hit them  5-1 in their  first match of the Group B CECAFA 2012 Tusker Senior Challenge Cup action at Namboole Sunday.

Braces from Chris Nduwagira and Sulemani Ndikumana and another effort from Yusuf Ndikumana saw Burundi go rampage as Somalia got a consolation from the spot courtesy of Mohammed Jabril.

Somalia had managed to   put up a good fight and even scared to go ahead and hitting the woodwork, but Burundi managed to get them back in the game.

SC Victoria’s first team coach Sam Ssimbwa has been named the Somalia national soccer team coach for the upcoming Cecafa Tusker Challenge Cup.

According to the club’s website, the former Express Coach has been given the go ahead by his bosses at the club to take up the job for the two weeks tournament that kicks off this weekend till December 8th in Kampala

 “I am pleased that my club allowed me to take this opportunity”, Ssimbwa told the club’s official website. “It shows that the club is supportive in my growth as a coach”, he added.

The flamboyant Coach who started his work on Monday morning was also honoured to coach a national team given he has never coached any with the closest being an assistant for Uganda Cranes a few years ago.

Kwadwo Asamoah scored one of the goals for Juventus as they crushed Pescara 6-1 to stay at the top of the table with a four-point margin.

The Ghana striker scored his side's third goal in the 30th minute - his first in two months after 12 games.

Mounir El Hamdaoui made sure of the points for Fiorentina who won their fourth straight game by defeating AC Milan 3-1.

The Morocco striker secured the points with three minutes remaining after coming on as a substitute in the 56th minute.

SPAIN

Champions Uganda will begin their Tusker Senior Challenge Cup defence against rivals Kenya on November 24th in what is dubbed as ‘Migingo Island’ derby after both sides were pooled together in group A.

In a draw held this Monday morning at Serena Hotel under the watchful eye of Cecafa general secretary Nicholas Musonye, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and debutants South Sudan have been pooled in group A.

Group B has 2007 Champions Sudan, Tanzania, Burundi and Somalia while Mitcho Sredojevich’s Rwanda will play Zanzibar, Eritrea and guests Malawi in group C.

Somalia have revealed they will arrive in Uganda on 8 November to allow time for 15 training days before the start of the East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup (Cecafa Cup).

Instability in Somalia has left the team without training facilities in their country.

Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab said: "The old soccer stadium is under construction by Fifa and the national facility the 'Stadium Mogadishu' is home to AU troops in Somalia.

"For those reasons we have to encamp the team in Kampala."

The team's early arrival for the tournament, which kicks off on 24 November, also affords them the opportunity to acclimatise to different conditions.