Sunday April 23 12:26 AM ET

World Cup Roundup
By The Associated Press,

Kenyan fans rioted, causing a World Cup qualifier to be abandoned with
several minutes remaining Saturday, and Nigeria and South Africa advanced to
the second round of African play.

At Nairobi, fans in the crowd of 20,000 threw bottles and stones on the
field and ripped out seats in Moi International Stadium. Kenya, which lost
the opener of the home-and-home, total-goals series 2-0 April 8, was
scoreless in injury time against Malawi, leaving little hope it would be one
of 25 nations in Africa's second round.

Players came off the field only after tear gas was fired into the crowd, and
small fires were started around the 60,000-seat stadium. Disgruntled
supporters called for the firing of Kenya's coach, Christian Chukwu, who is
from Nigeria.

Azmy Hisham, the match official from FIFA, soccer's governing body, stopped
the game for the ``protection of players and officials.'' FIFA will decide
on how to determine the outcome of the series.

Nigeria, which played a scoreless tie on a high-school field at Eritrea on
April 9, advanced with a 4-0 win in Lagos.

Benedict Akwuegbu, Johathan Apkorborie, Garba Lawal and Nwankwo Kanu scored
for Nigeria.

At Bloemfontein, Shaun Bartlett scored his 19th international goal in South
Africa's 1-0 win over visiting Lesotho. South Africa advanced on 3-0
aggregate.

Tunisia beat visiting Mauritania 3-0 at Tunis on goals by Bilal Sidibe, Ziad
Jaziri and Imed Mehadhebi, advancing on 5-1 aggregate.

Morocco defeated Gambia 2-0 at Casablanca as Abdel El Fattai scored in the
19th and 32nd minutes, and advanced on 3-0 aggregate.

After losing the opener 2-0, Sierra Leone beat visiting Sao Tome and
Principe 4-0 at Freetown. Chernor Mansaray scored twice, and Abu Banaloko
Kanu and Siddique Turay had one goal each.

Zambia beat visiting Botswana 1-0 at Lusaka on an 85th-minute goal by Harry
Milanzi to advance on 2-0 aggregate.

At Windhoek, Namibia beat the visiting Seychelles 3-0 on three goals by
Razundara Tjikuzu to advance on 4-1 aggregate.

Daniel Cousin scored on a header in the 42nd minute as Gabon beat Madagascar
1-0 at Libreville, but the visitors advanced on 2-1 aggregate.

On Friday, Algeria beat the Cape Verde Islands 2-0 to advance following a
scoreless tie in the opener.

Sunday's schedule has Swaziland at Angola, Ethiopia at Burkina Faso, Somalia
at Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea at Congo, Djibouti at Congo Democratic
Republic, Mauritius at Egypt, Tanzania at Ghana, Uganda at Guinea, Rwanda at
Ivory Coast, Chad at Liberia, Libya at Mali, Sudan at Mozambique, Benin at
Senegal, Guinea-Bissau at Togo and the Central African Republic at Zimbabwe.

In second-round, second-leg games in the Caribbean, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines won 2-1 Saturday night at St. Kitts and Nevis to advance on 3-1
aggregate. Rodney Jack scored on a bicycle kick in the 18th minute at
Basseterre, and Kendall Velox made it 2-0 off a corner kick in the 61st
minute.

Keith Gumbs scored for the home team on a 22-yard free kick in the 68th.

On Sunday, Antigua and Barbuda is at Bermuda, with the winner playing St.
Vincent. The first leg was scoreless

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