To report the existence of cases of mycetoma in our setup so the treatment can be specified. Clinically suspected mycetoma cases form January 1998 to December 2002 were analyzed by various stains to differentiate between actinomycetes and eumycetoma. In this study out of 12 cases, 6 (50%) were caused by actinomycetes, 5 (41.7%) were caused by fungii and one cases was chromomycosis. The mean age was 52.5 years with a slight male preponderance. Mycetoma must be distinguished from chronic granulomatous disease and at the same time actinomycetes must be differentiated form eumycetoma as in all cases the treatment differs radically.