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FIFA unveils 2010 report

Africa will discover which of its competing nations is leading the race to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup later today.

The technical reports into the five African bidding nations hoping to host the tournament will be published on the FIFA.com website at 1800 GMT.

The reports have been compiled by teams of FIFA experts which have toured the five nations – Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco – to establish the suitability of staging an event the size of the World Cup.

South Africa and Morocco appear to be leading the race for the event – with South Africa seemingly destined to go one better than it did in the chase for the 2006 event, when it lost out by one vote to Germany.

FIFA makes its final decision at an Executive Board meeting on May 15.

Meanwhile, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been named in Time