Zanzibar to host CECAFA Elective Ordinary Assembly in January

_{The Elective Ordinary Assembly of the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) will take place on January 6th, 2023 in Zanzibar.}

_{The decision was made on Thursday during the CECAFA Extra Ordinary Assembly held at the Ewa Hotel in Khartoum, Sudan}

_{“I am glad that the Assembly has agreed that the Elective Assembly takes place in Zanzibar,” said the CECAFA Executive Director, Auka Gecheo.}

_{During the Extra Ordinary Assembly which was also graced by FIFA officials managing the FIFA Regional Office for Eastern Africa in Kigali, Rwanda Davis Ndayisenga and Abigail Lemma Haileichael, the CECAFA President, Wallace Karia said it is important as members in the Zone to work together.}

_{“We always need to work together as members in the Zone and take them to CAF as a block,” said Karia. The members of the Assembly also agreed that they write to CAF to amend the tough rule where a whole team is sent out of a Boys U-17 tournament if even one player fails a Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test.}

_{The Assembly also approved a proposal to amendment of the CECAFA constitution and passed the financial reports for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021.}

_{Tanzania also accepted to be on stand by to host the CAF Pan African Schools tournament in December this year since there is an Ebola scare in Uganda. “We are ready to host the Schools tournament incase Uganda cannot,” said the Vice President of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), Athumani Nyamlani.}

_{The members in the Assembly also agreed that they pick the two members from the CECAFA Zone from Rwanda and Somalia already serving on the CAF referees Committee and also send three names for the Women. CAF requested Member Associations to send names of persons who will be considered when picking the referees committee.}

_{Dr. Mutasim Jaafar Sarkhatm, President of the Sudan Football Association (SFA) said they are happy to be hosting the U-20 AFCON qualifying tournament and the Extra Ordinary Assembly as well. He also congratulated South Sudan for qualifying for the U-17 and U-20 AFCON.}

_{The Extra Ordinary Assembly was attended by delegates from Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Burundi, Uganda, Djibouti and Zanzibar, Kenya did not send a representative because they are still serving a FIFA suspension.}