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The East African Federation ( Swahili: Shirikisho la Afrika Mashariki) is a proposed political union of the eight sovereign states of the East African Community in the African Great Lakes region – Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda – as a single federated sovereign state. [6]
The Alliance of Sahel States [2] ( AES / ASS [3] [4] [5] [a]) is a mutual defense pact [5] created between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso on 16 September 2023. [8] [9] The pact was created during the 2023 Nigerien crisis in which the West African political bloc ECOWAS threatened to intervene militarily to restore civilian rule after a coup in ...
The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022, 11:00 GMT (13:00 local time, UTC+2 ), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. [1] The 16 winners of the playoff round of qualifying were drawn into four groups of four. The teams were seeded by their performances in the CAF competitions for the previous five seasons ( CAF 5-year ...
The African Football League ( AFL) is an annual continental men's club football competition run by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) since 2023. [1] [2] It was announced on 28 November 2019 by Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA. It was initially launched as the Africa Super League on 10 August 2022 and was to include twenty-four ...
2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup The CAF Confederation Cup , known as the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual association football club competition established in 2004 from a merger of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners' Cup and organized by CAF .
The 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification matches were organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to decide the participating teams of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, the 34th edition of the international men's football championship of Africa. A total of 24 teams qualified to play in the final tournament ...
The 2023 CAF Confederation Cup final were the final matches of the 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup, the 20th season of Africa's premier club football tournament organised by CAF under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners' Cup . The final was contested in two-legged home-and-away format ...
CECAFA was founded unofficially in 1927. The competition was sponsored by the major Nairobi -based soap-manufacturing firm Gossage, owned by the British Lever Brothers. Its formation is often misattributed to William Gossage, founder of the Gossage company. However, he died 50 years before the CECAFA was established.