By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – South African football is reeling from the deaths of four players killed in a car accident in the same region where national team assistant coach Thomas Madigage lost his life in another crash last month.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 9 – The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has set up a special body to deal with appeals over the bans handed out in the country’s infamous match-fixing scandal.
By Duncan Mackay
November 1 – Irvin Khoza, one of South Africa’s most influential football administrators who was chairman of the Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, is to challenge Gideon Sam for the position of President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) later this month, it has been revealed.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 23 – Jacques Anouma, one of Africa’s leading football administrators, has poured further scorn on the continent’s recent rule change banning anyone from outside the inner sanctum from challenging Issa Hayatou for the Presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – A protest against the suspension of the Egyptian domestic league briefly forced Nigerian players who had arrived for an African Champions league game against Al-Ahly to be holed up in their Cairo hotel.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has banned for life 15 players and officials involved in the country’s long-running match-fixing scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Egypt’s football association has delayed the rest of the domestic season indefinitely, saying it has not been given sufficient security guarantees by the Government in the wake of the Port Said tragedy.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 9 – The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has lost out on a grant to help fund match-fixing investigations after failing to meet a deadline set by FIFA.
By David Gold
October 3 – The Council for East and Central African Football Associations (CECAFA) secretary general Nicholas Musonye has hit out at Kenyan Football Federation (FKF) chairman Sam Nyamweya for boycotting this year’s regional tournament.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 2 – Egypt, African football’s most successful nation, is in danger of being suspended by FIFA amid continuing unrest following February’s deadly riots in Port Said.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 20 – Egyptian fans have won a major political coup by preventing FIFA Executive Committee member Hani Abou-Reida, the country’s most powerful football official, from becoming the new Egyptian Football Association (EFA) chairman.
By David Gold
September 14 – Cameroon have dismissed coach Denis Lavagne following a disastrous Africa Cup of Nations qualifying tie defeat to tiny Cape Verde.
By David Gold
September 13 – Cameroon were forced to cancel a friendly that was due to take place in Alexandria against Egypt earlier this week.
By David Gold
September 10 – The Egyptian Sports Ministry has delayed the start of the new Premier League season for a month, after fans attacked the country’s Football Association headquarters.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 10 – Jacques Anouma, one of Africa’s leading football administrators, has denounced the recent ruling banning anyone from outside the continent’s inner sanctum from challenging Issa Hayatou for the presidency of Confederation of African Football (CAF).