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.

Gabonese club US Bitam created a CAF Confederation Cup record when they overwhelmed Desportivo Guadalupe from Sao Tome e Principe 12-1 at the weekend.

The preliminary-round rout was the biggest victory margin in the 10 years of the second-tier pan-African competition, eclipsing a 9-0 victory by South African side SuperSport United in the second edition.

Bitam entered the return match in northern Gabon with a 5-0 lead and the 17-1 aggregate score is also a record for a competition created after the African Cup Winners Cup and CAF Cup were discontinued.

El Nasir became the first South Sudan club to compete in a CAF competition this weekend, but they conceded a couple of late goals to lose 3-1 at Azam of Tanzania in the Confederation Cup.

Ivorian Kipre Tchetche was the dream-wrecker as he gave Azam the lead for the second time in Dar es Salaam on 80 minutes and added a third deep in stoppage time at the 60,000-seat national stadium.

Abdi Kassim put the Tanzanians ahead 14 minutes into the preliminary round, first leg game and Jacob Osulo levelled on the half-hour mark for the visitors from South Sudan capital Juba.

The clubs clash again in early March with El Nasir enjoying home advantage and the goal they scored in Dar es Salaam offers some hope of overturning the first-leg deficit.

Yannick Sagbo scored the opening goal of the game for Evian, but his side lost a two-goal lead to lose 3-2 at Nice. The Ivory Coast striker has scored twice in 17 appearances for Evian.

League holders Montpellier won their third game in a row after thrashing Bastia 4-0. Morocco striker Younes Belhanda was among the scorers, accounting for the third goal on the hour mark to take his tally to six finishes.

Fellow Moroccan Kamel Chafni equalised in the 63rd minute for Brest four minutes after his side conceded to Sochaux. It was Chafni's first goal of Ligue 1 this season as Brest took all three points after winning 2-1.

Uganda completed it's group stage in perfect style with a convincing 4-0 thrashing of newcomers South Sudan in the Cecafa Tusker Cup at Namboole on Friday.

The meet offered stark contrast of the two sides, with South Sudan coming into the game with a mountain to climb in the face of an unbeaten Ugandan opposition.

Coach Bobby Williamson’s men were already into the quarter finals following earlier wins over Kenya and Ethiopia, and the debutants were yet to taste victory or at the very least, a goal.

But the hosts did not leave anything to spare.

Kenya picked their first win of the CECAFA tournament in Kampala on Tuesday posting a 2-0 win over new comers South Sudan in a match that was characterized by missed chances from the Kenyan strikers.

Kenya’s goals were scored by David Ochieng and Cliffton Miheso in each half of the match to push Harambee Stars to the top of Group A with a better goal difference but same on points as Uganda and Ethiopia who play later in the day.

Having exposed severe bluntness in attack in the first match against Uganda Cranes, coach James Nandwa made changes in his starting lineup especially in attack opting to start with wingers Kevin Omondi and Paul Were on the flanks and Mike Barasa as the lead central striker.

Ethiopia managed to kick off their CECAFA Campaigns on a high after seeing off their opponents and debutants South Sudan by a solitary goal on Saturday 24 November 2012 at the Nambole Stadium.

The match started on a high with Ethiopians showing more zeal to score in the early stages of the match but Sudan also showed flashes of brilliance.

Both teams however managed to stabilize the game as the match progressed with Sudan forcing am end to end game.

The first half was a goalless affair with neither of the teams managing to crack the others’ defence despite the frequent raids.

South Sudan's national team coach, Zoran Dorjdevic, is a worried man just a few days before his team makes their debut in the Cecafa Challenge Cup.

After being granted membership of Fifa earlier this year, South Sudan are struggling to prepare properly for their first senior competition.

They will face a tough test in Uganda, where they have been drawn against the hosts and defending Cecafa Challenge Cup champions, as well as Kenya and Ethiopia.

South Sudan coach Dorjdevic (pictured above) told BBC Sport in Juba on Saturday that he is not very comfortable going into the tournament because his team has barely trained or even had friendly matches.