FIFA RANKING - April 2017 FOR AFRICA

Liberia in freefall in latest Fifa rankings

6 Apr 2017
NATIONAL TEAM - GHANA - COACH - Ghana re-appoint Kwesi Appiah as coach

Kwesi Appiah returns as Ghana coach on a two-year contract.

5 Apr 2017
African Confederation Cup 2017 - play-offs - Mazembe look for new coach after draw

DR Congo's TP Mazembe will play in the Confederation Cup.

24 Mar 2017
NATIONAL TEAM - IVORY COAST - COACH - Marc Wilmots named as new coach

Ivory Coast name Belgian Marc Wilmots as coach.

23 Mar 2017
CAF - NATIONAL TEAM - Zanzibar admitted as full CAF member

CAF is now the joint-biggest confederation in Fifa.

23 Mar 2017
African Champions League 2017 - Holders Sundowns progress to group phase

Holders Sundowns overcome KCCA to reach Champions League group phase.

19 Mar 2017
STARS IN EUROPE - IVORY COAST - CLUB - Kalou extends contract at Hertha Berlin

Salomon Kalou went to Hertha Berlin from Lille in 2014.

18 Mar 2017
U-20 Africa Cup 2017 - Hosts Zambia beat Senegal to win the tournament

Hosts Zambia turned on the style to lift the U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.

12 Mar 2017

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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