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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has postponed the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19. A statement issued by CAF said the postponement of the qualifiers was as a result of travel restrictions across the African continent. “Due to travel restrictions across …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |  The Confederation of African Football (CAF) decided on Monday to resume both the semifinals and final of the Confederation Cup and Champions League after more than three months of suspension over the COVID-19 spread concerns. Semifinal matches of the African Confederation Cup will be played …

  Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Africa Cup of Nations Cameroon 2021 has been postponed to January 2022. The African Nations Championship ( CHAN) Cameroon 2020 has also been moved to 2021. The CAF Executive Committee made the decision in a meeting on Tuesday, 30 June 2020, via …

Cairo, Egypt | THE INDEPENDENT | Africa soccer governing body CAF will distribute $200,000 to each of its members to support the management of football at the domestic levels hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. At its meeting on Thursday  via video-conference, the CAF Emergency Committee has approved the immediate distribution …

Why FIFA’s reform proposals are neo-colonial | CHUKA ONWEMECHILI | FIFA has ended its 6-month management takeover of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). But the future of the game on the continent is still clouded with uncertainty. In June last year the world football governing body effectively took over …

Yaoundé, Cameroon | AFP |  The Africa Cup of Nations will revert to its former time slot of January and February for the next edition in 2021, hosts Cameroon said on Wednesday. The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) revealed that the tournament will be played from January 9 to February 6, …

  Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa survived scares on Saturday to become the first qualifiers for the CAF Champions League quarter-finals. Five-time champions Mazembe fell behind after eight minutes against Primeiro Agosto of Angola in …

Paris, France | AFP | Mohamed Salah will face competition from Liverpool teammate Sadio Mane if he is to sweep a third consecutive African Player of the Year award. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) tweeted that Egypt’s Salah, Mane of Senegal as well Manchester City’s Algerian forward Riyad Mahrez …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | KCCA will take on another Angolan side for a place in the African Champions League group stages, according to the CAF draw. KCCA have good memories of their last match against Angolans, after they edged CD Primeiro de Agosto in 2017. Winners qualify for …

Cairo, Egypt | AFP | Tunisia’s Esperance were declared winners of the African Champions League by CAF on Wednesday following a long legal battle after Wydad Casablanca stormed off in protest during the second leg of the final in May. Wydad “is considered to have lost the game”, African football’s governing …