The Moroni Protestant Church has been desecrated by unidentified people with obscene words written in black ink on the walls. The paper "L’Archipel" said on Monday that a police enquiry has so far not identified the culprits. The obscene words are in broken French with the authors writing about hatred against Christians. The leader of the small protestant community in the Comoros and assistant of the consul of Madagascar in Moroni identified as the Reverend Willy, who was visibly stunned by the desecration, said he had not seen anything like that before. "We have been here for 30 years and have never seen anything similar. We have never been worried in the practice of our religion," Rev. Willy said, adding that he wanted to "to keep cohabiting peacefully". Some 98 per cent of the Comoros population is Muslims. He said in his opinion, the sacrilege was "an isolated act" by people who were being "manipulated" by a group for hidden motives he cannot fathom. (Tuesday 13 May - 01:54)

GHANA SOCCER LEAGUE TABLE

Rank	Team	P	W.	D.	L.	F.	A.	GD.	Pts.
1.	Asante Kotoko	16	12	3	1	28	4	26	39
2.	Liberty Prof	18	11	3	4	33	13	20	36
3.	Heart of Lions	17	10	1	6	15	12	+3	31
4.	Berekum Arsenals	18	8	5	5	17	14	+3	29
5.	Ashantigold	17	7	5	5	20	15	+5	26
6.	All Stars	18	8	1	9	17	17	0	25
7.	Kessben	18	7	3	8	18	19	-1	24
8.	King Faisal	17	5	8	4	17	15	+2	23
8.	Hearts of Oak	18	6	5	7	15	16	-1	23
8.	Gamba All Blacks	18	7	2	9	17	27	-10	23
11.	Real Tamale Utd	17	8	1	8	18	22	-4	22
12.	Hasaacas	18	5	4	9	21	24	-3	19
12.	Tema Youth	18	4	7	7	11	17	-6	19
12.	Zaytuna FC	18	5	4	9	16	24	-8	19
15.	Real Sportive	18	4	5	9	19	26	-7	17
16.	Great Olympics	18	3	5	10	16	32	-16	14

(Tuesday 13 May - 01:23)

KENYA SOCCER LEAGUE TABLE

Rank	Team	P	W.	D.	L.	F.	A.	Pts.
1.	Mathare United	10	5	4	1	19	11	19
2.	World Hope	10	5	4	1	10	8	19
3.	Chemelil Sugar	10	5	3	2	14	8	18
4.	Tusker	10	5	3	2	14	10	18
5.	Thika Utd	10	5	2	3	7	5	17
6.	Sher Karuturi	10	4	4	2	6	4	16
7.	Sony Sugar	10	3	5	2	7	5	14
8.	KCB	10	4	2	4	9	11	14
9.	Agro Chemical	10	3	4	3	7	8	17
10.	Ulinzi Stars	10	3	3	4	11	11	12
11.	Gor Mahia	10	3	3	4	5	8	12
12.	Western Stima	10	3	2	5	13	13	11
13.	Mathare Youth	10	3	1	6	9	13	10
14.	Red Berets	10	2	3	5	8	11	9
15.	Bandari	10	2	2	6	6	13	8
16.	Mahakam	10	1	3	6	9	15	6

(Tuesday 13 May - 00:52)

Three Cameroonian clubs, Cotonsport of Garoua, Astres of Douala and Mont Cameroon, over the week-end qualified for the next round of t he African football championships. In the African league, despite its 1-2 loss to Jeunesse Sportive of Kabylie (JSK ) in the first leg in Algeria, Cotonsports still qualified for the semi-final of the tournament by its 3-0 thumping on the first leg In the Confederation of the African Football (CAF) Cup competition, Astres drew 1-1 against AS Vita club in Kinshasa. The goalless draw in the first leg has favoured Astres’ qualification due to the goal scored in their away match. Mont Cameroun’s 5-0 drubbing of South Africa’s Ajax Capetown helped them secure their qualification despite their 1-5 away defeat in the first leg. The Camerooonian clubs’ opponents will be known during the draw scheduled for 17 May. (Monday 12 May - 23:13)

South Africa’s world famous Kruger National Park has become a hot spot for the poaching of mammals, according to the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. The Ministry revealed here that over the last four years, at least 44 white rhinos and 31 buffaloes were killed by poachers. In total, 249 mammals were killed by poachers in Kruger during this period, it said. There was admittedly a meaningful drop in the number of animals reportedly poached in 2007, compared to the previous years, but these figures remain disturbingly high, especially for white rhino. The Ministry has also revealed the extraordinarily high levels of poaching of marine species in the Table Mountain National Park. The figure increased over each of the last three years to 8,665 in 2007. (Monday 12 May - 13:57)

The CAF Confederation Cup match between Nigeria’s Dolphins FC and Ghana’s Asante Kotoko was due to be replayed Monday (12 May), after a downpour forced a stoppage of the encounter midway on Sunday. The relentless rain forced the Angolan match officials to call off the tie, played at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, and reschedule it for Monday at the same venue. Kotoko was leading 1-0 before the postponement, after striker Jordan Opoku scored in a controversial circumstances in the 43rd minute. (Monday 12 May - 13:52)

Against all odds, Zimbabwe’s Dynamos football club at the weekend booted out Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel, African Champions League title holder, of this year’s competition away from home. The Zimbabweans took a slender 1-0 lead into the weekend match in Sousse, Tunisia, and, in a rare feat, beat Etoile du Sahel 1-0 on the club’s home turf to progress to the next round on a 2-0 aggregate. The lone goal was scored by Benjamin Marere in the first stanza of the match. The victory, the biggest upset of weekend African Champions League matches, sent Dynamos supporters into wild celebrations back home. The club is the reigning soccer champion in Zimbabwe but, paired against Etoile du Sahel - and away from home - few had given Dynamos a chance. (Monday 12 May - 13:47)

Following are the results of the last 16 round of matches in the 2008 African Champions League matches played across Africa at the weekend, as compiled by CAF.

First leg results are in bracket.

Aggregate winners advance to the mini-league stage.

RESULTS

Asec Mimosas (C/d’Ivoire) 1 OC Khourigba (Morocco) 1 (0-0)

GD Interclube (Angola) 2 Zamalek (Egypt) 1 (0-3)

Etoile Sahel (Tunisia) 0 Dynamos (Zimbabwe) 1 (0-1)

Coton Sport (Cameroon) 2 J.S.K. (Algeria) 1 (3-0)

TP Mazembe (RD Congo) 2 Al Ittihad (Libya 0 (1-2)

Club Africain (Tunisia) 2 Enyimba (Nigeria) 1 (1-5)

Al Ahly (Egypt) 2 Platinium Stars (South Africa) 0 (1-2)

Sundowns (South Africa) 1 Al Hilal (Sudan) 0 (2-4)

(Monday 12 May - 11:23)

Sudan Armed Forces Sunday killed Jamal Hassan Jala-Eddin, commander of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan National News Agency (SUNA) said, quoting an authorised source of the Sudan Armed Forces. According to the source, the armed forces fought with the rebels at 50 kilometers from western Omdurman and completely eradicated all the 45 men of the rebel force, after pursuing them for hours. The armed forces undertook a combined operations following the Saturday attack by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement on the Sudanese town of Omdurman. (Sunday 11 May - 18:23)

The special representative of the UN Secretary General in Côte d’Ivoire, Choi Young-Jin, has said several donors, including France and Japan, will contribute more than 115 billion FCFA to finance the country’s forthcoming general elections and its post-crisis programme. "The time has come for us to accompany the Ivorian people by putting at their disposal substantial technical and financial means," he told a news conference here. "With the date of the elections, we can see the (light at the end of the) tunnel," the UN official said, adding that 11 billion FCFA of the amount would be devoted to preparations for the presidential election, slated for November 30. He said the remaining fund - 104 billion FCFA - will be used to finance the post -crisis programme established by the country’s authorities. He also announced that the international community had committed itself to drawing up a National Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper that will take into account the need to cancel the country’s debt and incr ease the official development assistance to it. (Friday 9 May - 14:11)