The number of countries in the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has increased by one. This is sequel to the admission of Zanzibar as a full member. This brings CAF affiliates to 55.
Zanzibar is a chain of islands (archipelago) in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanzania. Mitchell Obi in the AU Hall reports that the Tanzania FA chairman, Jamal Malinz, made spirited efforts to convince delegates to admit Zanzibar as full member of both CAF and FIFA.
It had been an associate member in the past. The proposal got full acclamation of the delegates. The Zanzibar FA president, Ravia Idarus Fana, thanked the delegates for the acceptance into the CAF family.
Those who will vote:
Mohamed Raouraoua (Algeria)
Artur de Almeida (Angola)
Anjorin Moucharafou (Benin Republic)
Mclean Letshwiti (Botswana)
Sita Sangare (Burkina Faso)
Reverien Ndikuriyo (Burundi)
Sidiki A Roko (Cameroon)
Victor Osorio (Cape Verde)
Edouard Ngaissona (Central Africa Republic)
Mahamoud Moctar (Chad)
Tourqui Salim (Comoros)
Jean Michel Mbono (Congo)
Omari Constant Selemani (DR Congo)
Augustin Sidy Diallo (Cote d’Ivoire)
Souleiman Hassan Waberi (Djibouti)
Hany Abo Rida (Egypt)
Andres-Jorge Mbomio (Equatorial Guinea)
Juneidi Tilmo (Ethiopia)
Pierre Alain Mounguengui (Gabon)
Lamin Kaba Bajo (The Gambia)
Kwesi Nyantakyi (Ghana)
Mohamed Souare (Guinea)
Manuel Lopes Nascimento (Guinea Bissau)
Nicholas Mwendwa Kithuku (Kenya)
Salemane Phafane (Lesotho)
Musa Bility (Liberia) Jafaar (Libya)
Ahmad Ahmad (Madagascar)
Walter Nyamilandu (Malawi)
Boubacar Diarra (Mali)
Ahmed Yahya (Mauritania)
Mohamed Ally Samir Sobha (Mauritius)
Fouzi Lekjaa (Morocco)
Alberto Junior (Mozambique)
Frans Mbidi (Namibia)
Melvin Amaju Pinnick(Nigeria)
Hamidou Djibrilla (Niger Republic)
Vincent Nzamwita (Rwanda)
Domingos Monteiro (Sao Tome e Principe)
Augustin Senghor (Senegal)
Elvis Chetty (Seychelles)
Isha Johansen (Sierra Leone)
Abdiqani Said Arab (Somalia)
Danny Jordaan (South Africa)
Augustino (South Sudan)
Mutasim Gafaar Sirelkhatim (Sudan)
Adam Mthethwa (Swaziland)
Jamal Malinzi (Tanzania)
Kossi Akpovy (Togo)
Wadie Jary (Tunisia)
Moses Magogo (Uganda)
Andrew Kamanga (Zambia)
Phillip Chiyangwa (Zimbabwe)
Ravia Idarus Fana( Zanzibar)