The Federation of International Football Association had yesterday December 21,2017 decided to appoint a normalisation committee to run the Malian Football Association (FEMAFOOT).

A letter to FEMAFOOT secretary general, Segui Kante, explains the decision to appoint a normalisation committee citing the current deadlock affecting his organization and comes after two missions to Bamako dispatched by FIFA and CAF.

Part of the letter reads:”The committee will be in charge of running the daily affairs of federation, reviewing the association’s statutes, identifying the legitimate delegates of the FEMAFOOT general assembly, and organising and conducting elections for a new FEMAFOOT executive committee, which should take place no later than April 30, 2018.

“The normalisation committee will be composed of an adequate number of members to be identified by a joint FIFA/CAF mission, which will take place soon. All members of the normalisation committee must pass an eligibility check to be carried out by the FIFA Review Committee.

“The normalisation committee will act as an electoral committee and none of its members will be eligible for any of the open positions in the elections.

Mali were banned from global football for six weeks earlier this year for government interference into the running of football in the country. This was after the country’s Sports Minister Housseïni Amion Guindo had dissolved the executive committee of FEMAFOOT.

Below:Fifa letter in full