Director of Pepsi Football Academy, Coach Kashimawo Laloko, has attributed Golden Eaglet failure to qualify for the Africa U-17 Championship in Algiers, Algeria, to indiscipline.

Sub-Saharan migrants continue attempting dangerous and illegal crossings into Libya and Algeria.

A dysfunctional United Nations security management system, a lack of adequate supervision and training, and significant lapses in judgement and performance all played a major role in the 2007 terrorist bombings of UN offices in Algiers, which killed 17 staff members, an independent panel reported today.

Thirty seven new Angolan students who recently arrived in Algeria Monday were briefed on the reality of that North African country, during a meeting with officials of the Angolan embassy in that State.

The Algeria coach, Rabah Saadane, has decided not to make any changes in his tried and tested squad for their decisive FIFA World Cup African Zone, Group 6, qualifiers in Liberia next week, Group leaders, Algeria will make sure they progress to the next round if they beat bottom-placed Liberia on 11 October to ensure top place in the standings. They have a one-point lead over Senegal and Gambia.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined calls from Algerian journalists that the government respect journalists' rights and end its practice of intimidating and harassing media to get them to reveal their confidential sources.

Nigeria may soon recieve an offer of about N2.4 trillion for the construction of the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria on stream as both the European Union (EU) and Russia are currently in a race for the control of the foreign investment portfolio for the project.

If the refreshing word of Asante Kotoko's coach, Bashir Hayford is anything to go by then a good result is expected as they host Algeria's J.S. Kabylie (JSK) in Kumasi, this Sunday.

Secretary Condoleezza Rice

The Scorpions camp is trimming with talent ahead of their Saturday cracker against the Desert Warriors of Algeria at the Independence Stadium in Bakau.

Many of Africa’s leading soccer teams are playing away games this weekend as the fifth and penultimate round of qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup and 2010 Cup of Nations soccer tournaments takes place.

Cameroon has taken a good option towards qualification for the 8th African under 17 championship, to take place in Algeria next year. The under 17 Lions who were playing host to Gabon at the Mfandena sports complex in Yaounde, carried the day 2-0. The match counted for the first leg of the first round qualifiers for the championship. Cameroon proved to be more enterprising in the match and it was only logical that the fruit of their labour paid off.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the terrorist attack that reportedly killed at least 43 people in Algeria, stressing that violence will not deter the country's people from the path of peace and reconciliation.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Jean Ping, has learned with great concern of the terrorist attack that occurred in the town of Boumerdes, in Algeria, on 19 August 2008. The attack highlights once again the gravity of the threat posed by terrorism to Africa.

The Security Council has strongly condemned today's suicide bombing at a gendarmerie training academy in Algeria that has left dozens of people dead and injured many more.

AllAfrica's Aliou Goloko rounds up the African action at the Olympics in Beijing.

Abdoulaye, a Malian, spent more than US$500 to try to reach Spain across the Sahara, but he was caught by the Spanish authorities in Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the northern coast of Morocco and sent home 21 days later.

Abdoulaye (not his real name), 27, tried to illegally migrate from Mali to Spain a few months ago, but he was intercepted by the Spanish authorities in northern Morocco and sent home. Since then he has been living in Gao, the last big town in Mali before the Sahara crossing, trying to scrape together enough money to try again.