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JOHANNESBURG, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A digest of football stories from around the African continent in recent days:

NIGERIA - Nigeria have named a squad of 25 domestic-based players for this weekend's charity match in Senegal in aid of the victims of the ferry disaster, which claimed some 1,000 lives.
The hastily arranged fixture will be played in Dakar on Saturday.
Coach Christian Chukwu will miss the match as he travels to Malawi to watch the Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Angola, who are both in the same group as Nigeria.
Instead, the squad will be handled by assistant coach Austin Eguavoen. The squad includes World Cup goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama.

SOUTH AFRICA - Former Mozambican national coach Arnaldo Salvado has become the second casualty of the new South African football season, fired by his premier league club Black Leopards after the weekend.
Salvado, who only took over the team in June, was dismissed after three losses in four league matches.
Last week African Wanderers fired their coach Johnny Ferreira after just three games. Salvado was the first coach from Mozambique to work in South Africa.

ZIMBABWE - Goalkeeper Muzondiwa Gonese of Zimbabwean premier league club Masvigo United has been banned from football for life after an assault on a referee last month, officials announced on Friday.
Gonese attacked referee Philip Kawara with a double-footed lunge during a cup semi-final against AmaZulu after a penalty was awarded against him.
Masvingo striker Lloyd Hlahla, who also attacked the referee, was suspended indefinitely with a review of the decision to made at the end of the 2004 season, officials said. Masvigo were also kicked out of the cup competition. Zimbabwean referees on Saturday threatened to boycott domestic matches in protest at the attack.

IVORY COAST - Ivory Coast's national team gathered in France on Monday to begin a week-long training camp as the coach Robert Nouzaret took advantage of the availability of his European-based players, officials said.
The four-day camp was being held at Sainte-Mazie in the south of France with a friendly planned against Nice on Thursday.
A total of 25 players were called up with the Ivorians not involved in African Nations Cup action this weekend. The group includes Dagui Bakarai, the French-born striker from Lens who in the past has repeatedly turned down invitations to play for the country where his parents were born. Also called up for the first time was Sedan striker Alain Liri.