Africa's Basketball championship: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Angola Cruise to Semi-Finals

Egypt and Tunisia from group 1 and Algeria and Angola from group 2 qualified Thursday to the semi-finals of the African basketball championships held in Morocco August 4-12.

In the semi-finals Saturday, Egypt will play the title holder Angola while Algeria will play Tunisia. The two winners will play the final Sunday.

In group 1, the last matches of the first round resulted in the victory of Tunisia over Cote d'Ivoire 68-58, the victory of Morocco over Egypt 88-82 and the win of Mozambique over Mali 85-67.

After theses matches, Egypt remains on top of group 1 with 9 points, followed by Tunisia (9 points), and Morocco (8 points). Cote d'Ivoire (7 points) ranked 4th, followed by Mozambique (6 points), and Mali (6 points).

In group 2, Algeria (9 points) is still taking the lead, after a win over Senegal (7points). The title holder, Angola, holds the second rank (9 points) after it defeated South Africa 76-40. Nigeria which defeated the Central African Republic 59-56 has also gleaned 9 points, but did not qualify to the semi finals because of a difference of scores. It is followed by Senegal (7 points), the Central African Republic (6 points), and South Africa (5 points).