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Africa: FIFA Bans Africa Football Chief Ahmad Ahmad for 5 Years Over Corruption
DW, 23 November 2020
The Madagascan official has been handed a five-year ban from all football-related activity for financial misconduct. His misappropriation of funds included a pilgrimage to Mecca. Read more »
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Africa: FIFA Bans CAF President Ahmad Ahmad
Premium Times, 23 November 2020
Ahmad gets a five-year ban for "financial mismanagement". Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Motsepe Bombshell Shakes African Football
The Herald, 10 November 2020
South African billionaire businessman, Patrice Motsepe, dropped a bombshell yesterday which shook the continent's football landscape when he announced he will run for the CAF… Read more »
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Nigeria: In Race for CAF Presidency, Pinnick a Formidable Figure
Premium Times, 9 November 2020
No Nigerian has ever held the top post as the seven presidents have hailed from Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and Madagascar. Read more »
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Nigeria: Pinnick Shelves Ambition to Rule CAF, Guns for FIFA Council Seat
This Day, 10 November 2020
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has shelved his ambition to run for CAF presidency slated to hold in Morocco next March. Read more »
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Africa: Race to Run Africa's Football Confederation Has Just Heated Up. What's At Play
The Conversation Africa, 13 November 2020
South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe's intention to contest for the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) will make for an interesting run up to the March… Read more »
Heat On For CAF Top Job as President Gets the Chop from FIFA
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) president has immense powers, which include representing Africa at the highest committees for global football decision-making at the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA). Madagascar's Ahmad Ahmad, CAF president, has been slapped with a five-year ban by FIFA for financial mismanagment, according to the Premium Times. This comes just weeks after South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe announced his intention to run for the CAF presidency on March 12, 2021. Ahmad probably thought he had a clear run at a second term. After all, he had already secured support from 46 of the 54 member countries. Three other contestants were also added to the race - Cote d'Ivoire's Jacques Anouma, a former member of FIFA's executive committee, Senegalese Augustin Senghor and Mauritania's Ahmed Yahya. Two others have withdrawn: Tarek Bouchamoui was reportedly blocked by Tunisia's Football Federation, and Nigerian Amaju Pinnick, former CAF vice president, who is eyeing a FIFA post, and who is backing Motsepe.
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The Confederation of African Football, CAF, is maintaining a strict stance on health protocols against the spread of Covid-19 as they are trying to keep the integrity of soccer intact. CAF is demanding that all players test negative for Covid-19 48-hours before a match. Several qualifiers have already been played in November, including Rwanda's Amavubi team, settling for a 0-0 draw against Cape Verde's Blue Sharks. Gabonese team, The Brazilians, beat Gambia's Scorpions 2-1. Algeria's
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Amaju Pinnick has been dismissed from his role as a vice-president of the Confederation of African Football and replaced by South Africa's Danny Jordaan. Pinnick had served as the first vice-president of CAF since July 2018. No reason for his removal was given.
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