Ivory Coast beat Nigeria in battle of top guns
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Ivory Coast, one of the hot tournament favourites, beat fellow west African giants Nigeria 1-0 in the crunch Group B tie of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations here on Monday.
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Nigeria&#39;s outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo visited Liberia and Sierra Leone Saturday to receive top honours for his country&#39;s role in helping quell civil wars in the two west African states.
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Samuel Eto'o became the leading all-time African Nations Cup scorer with 15 goals after converting a 27th-minute penalty to give Cameroon a 1-0 lead over Sudan in a Group C match Wednesday.
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Gunfire killed at least 10 and wounded  hundreds in a clash involving French troops, protesters and  local security forces in Ivory Coast on Tuesday, the fourth  straight day of chaotic violence in the West African country.
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Hosts Ghana claim a third-place finish at the Africa Cup of Nations beating Ivory Coast in a six-goal thriller.
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Ghana meet Nigeria then Ivory Coast takes on Guinea in the first Africa Cup of Nations quarter finals.
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Nigeria and Germany won their quarterfinals at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup yesterday in South Korea, completing a semifinal lineup of four former finalists.Nigeria defeated Argentina, 2-0, to end South American participation in the tournament, while Germany dominated England, 4-1. Nigeria and Germany will meet in one semifinal, and the other will pit Ghana and Spain.
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France finally won its game of brinkmanship. Teetering on the edge of another embarrassing first-round elimination from the World Cup, the 1998 champion beat Togo 2-0 on Friday to advance to the final 16 for a game against Spain.
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Another 2-0 deficit wasn&#039;t enough to stop orange-clad Ivory Coast from stomping away in its elephant dance.
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Didier Drogba marked his 50th international cap with a goal to help Ivory Coast beat Mali 3-0 here Tuesday to finish the opening round of the African Nations Cup as Group B leaders.
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England still can&#039;t get past Portugal or Luiz Felipe Scolari. After the English lost David Beckham to an injury and Wayne Rooney to a red card, Portugal won a shootout 3-1 Saturday night following 120 minutes of scoreless soccer.
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A summit of French-speaking countries may have opened with the Ivory Coast at the top of its agenda, but it wasn&#39;t enough to keep the West African state at the table.
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ABUJA, Nigeria  - Nigeria failed to agree with Cameroon on a promised troop-pullout from disputed territory in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea on Friday, a month after a UN-backed deadline for its hand-over to Cameroon passed.
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The goals continued to flow at the 2008  African Nations Cup Saturday with a record created as hosts Ghana beat Ivory Coast 4-2 in the third place play-off.
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The Elephants of Ivory Coast may be one of the tournament favourites for the 2008 African Nations Cup but Group B rivals Nigeria believe they have enough in the tank to go past them Monday on their way to a third continental crown.
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BOUAKE, Ivory Coast -- Ivory Coast warplanes bombed the largest city of the rebel-held north yesterday in waves of attacks, breaking a more than year-old cease-fire in the civil war that split West Africa's onetime economic powerhouse.
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France has defeated Cyprus 2-0 in its World Cup qualifier in Nicosia thanks to goals from Sylvain Wiltord and Thierry Henry. Wiltord, a former teammate of Henry&#39;s at Arsenal, netted the opening goal in the