At the CAF, Morocco has won a diplomatic battle against Algeria, which sees its dream of admitting the so-called “SADR” to the Confederation of African Football evaporate, writes Jeune Afrique Monday.
On March 12, the General Assembly of CAF approved an amendment that excludes the possible project of a soccer federation for the pseudo “SADR” supported by Algeria. A diplomatic victory for the Kingdom, says the pan-African magazine, which publishes an article by political analyst Hicham Rahil.
This Friday, March 12 in Rabat, the Ordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) approved a historic amendment for which Fouzi Lakjaâ fought for many months, notes the political analyst in this column.
This amendment decrees that “the Confederation of African Football is open to all candidatures of African national associations as official representatives managing soccer in a country recognized as an independent state and member of the UN”.
CAF, to which the continent’s 54 soccer federations are affiliated and which organizes all competitions on African soil, including the African Cup of Nations (CAN), the African Nations Championship (CHAN) and the Champions League, “will no longer admit a new member to its family if it is not recognized as an independent state by the United Nations,” according to the amendment.
In other words, comments the author of the article, the Algerian dream to admit one day a soccer federation of the ghostly “SADR” in the CAF “has evaporated.
This “crucial” amendment obtained at the end of the 43rd Ordinary General Assembly of the CAF, and “which the Moroccans can only be proud of”, comes “three months after the U.S. recognition of the sovereignty of the Kingdom over the Sahara”, says the political analyst.
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