NATIONAL TEAM - SOUTH AFRICA - COACH - Gordon Igesund cleared of wrongdoing after FA inquiry

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stars in Europe - Yaya Toure - injured Manchester City midfielder out for two weeks

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure will be out for up to two weeks with a muscle injury picked up in Sunday's defeat by Liverpool.

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stars in Europe - Guinea's Ibrahima Traore on the move in Germany

Borussia Monchengladbach have signed Guinea international Ibrahima Traore from VfB Stuttgart for next season.

14 Apr 2014
LEGENDS - ‪‪CAMEROON - Roger Milla loses 20-year record as Africa's oldest internationalist

Roger Milla has lost his record as the oldest footballer to represent an African national team to 43-year-old Mauritius striker Kersley Appou.

13 Apr 2014
2015 Africa Cup qualifiers - Mauritania beat Mauritius in first leg

Hosts Mauritania made the most of home advantage and included a number of young players in their side including the England-based left-back Ahmed Ahmedou. 

12 Apr 2014
2015 Africa Cup qualifiers - Mauritania and Mauritius set for 2015 qualifier

Ahmedou is confident Mauritania have the players to achieve a good result and make those fans happy. 

10 Apr 2014
stars in Europe - Ba strike takes Chelsea through

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9 Apr 2014
stars in Europe - Eto'o could return for Chelsea vs PSG

Striker Samuel Eto'o could be available for Chelsea when they face Paris-St Germain in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final second leg.

8 Apr 2014

FIFA - Ghanaian judge to head Fifa's Disciplinary Committee

Ghanaian Anin Yeboah, a supreme court justice, has been elected as chairman of Fifa's Disciplinary Committee.

He was voted in for a four-year term at Thursday's congress of football's world governing body in Bahrain.

Yeboah was a member of Fifa's Ethics Committee last year.

He was one of several Africans voted onto committees at the congress, including Rwanda's Martin Ngoga as deputy chairman of the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee.


Africans elected on to Fifa committees at 67th Congress:

+++ Disciplinary Committee +++ 

Chairman: 
Justice Anin Yeboah (Ghana) - Supreme Court Justice

Members: 
• Maclean Letshwiti (Botswana)
• Guy Akpovi (Togo)
• Mahmoud Hammami (Tunisia)

 

+++ Appeal Committee +++

Members: 
• Jean-Louis Atangana Amougou (Cameroon)
• Alberto Simango (Mozambique)

 

+++ Ethics Committee - investigatory chamber +++
Deputy chairman: Martin Ngoga (Rwanda) - Former Prosecutor General

Members: 
• Janet Katisya (Kenya)

 

+++ Ethics Committee - adjudicatory chamber +++

Members: 
• Justice Ayotunde Phillips (Nigeria)

 

+++ Audit and Compliance Committee +++

Members: 
• Andrew Kamanga (Zambia)

 

 

 

12 May 2017
(BBC Sport UK)

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