The Total Africa Cup of Nations Organizing Committee met on Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at the CAF headquarters in Cairo to constitute a roadmap for the hosting of future Africa Cup of Nations Tournaments.
According to CAF-oline, Five items were on the agenda of this very first meeting, after the appointment of the members of this Committee by the Executive Committee.
CAF President Ahmad Ahmad chaired the meeting in order to situate the strategic and vital nature of this committee, in charge of the management of the major competition of CAF and which generates the most important revenues for the Confederation.
The president also took the opportunity to reaffirm that at no time had any consideration been given to revisiting decisions already taken inconformity with the provisions of the Statutes and leading to the designation of Cameroon, Côted’Ivoire and Guinea, as host country of the next three editions of Total AFCON, namely 2019, 2021 and 2023.
“Our role is to best accompany Cameroon, which organizes the Total Afcon in 2019, in a new format, to properly fill in the list of requirements of the Host Agreement, which is not a static document and that you have the possibility to improve now that you have taken up your duties,”said the President to the members of the Committee.
The Committee agreed to set up an ad hoc bureau to:
– draw up the terms of reference for the call for tenders for the selection of the cabinet
– conduct the tender process and finalize it
– define a timetable of activities
A contract will be signed between CAF and the firm selected at the end of the call for tenders. A period will be communicated to the Cameroonian authorities for the first inspection visit.
This ad hoc bureau will receive the inspection report, which will be shared and analyzed by the Committee as a whole at its next meeting.
Full list of the Members of the CAF Organizing for the African Cup of Nations
1. Amaju Melvin Pinnick (Nigeria) – President
2. Alexander Danny Jordaan (South Africa) – 1st Vice President
3. Phillip Chiyangwa (Zimbabwe) – 2nd Vice President
4. Magdi Shams El Din (Sudan) – Member
5. Said Belkhayat (Morocco) – Member
6. Juneid Basha Telmo (Ethiopia) – Member
7. Me Augustin Sengor (Senegal) – Member
8. Sita Sangare (Burkina Faso) – Member
9. Manuel Lopes Nacimento (Guinea Bissau) – Member
10. Abdigani Said Arab (Somalia) – Member
11. Ahmed Mohamed Megahed (Egypt) – Member
12. Celestin Musabyimana (Rwanda) – Member
13. Djibrilla Hima Hamidou (Niger) – Member
14. Elvis Chetty (Seychelles) – Member
15. Georges Afriyie (Ghana) – Member
16. Me Happy Dieudonne (Cameroon) – Member
17. Jamal Saleh El Jaafari (Lybia) – Member
18. Joseph Antoine Bell (Cameroon) – Member
19. Kossi Guy Akpouy (Togo) – Member
20. Lamine Kabba Bajo (Gambia) – Member
21. Maclein Cortez (Botswana) – Member
22. Mario Semedo (Cape Verde) – Member
23. Masamba Jean Didier (Congo DR) – Member
24. Mvele Adam Mthethwa (Swaziland) – Member
25. Patrice Edward Ngaisona (Central Africa) – Member
26. Samir Sobha (Mauritius) – Member
27. Simnago Alberto (Mozambique) – Member
28. Walter Nyamilandu (Malawi) – Member
Source: CAF Online