The dissolution does not permanently remove the governing structures, and new boards are expected to be reconstituted in due course.

The ACG appointment is her second African sport board role in a matter of days.

SEED Project moves into what it calls SEED Academy Reimagined 2025-2030, a transformation plan touching governance, academic and athletic standards, student welfare, financing and expansion across the continent.

The new season kicked off on Friday, under an administrators nobody had heard of a week earlier, while the body meant to oversee the federation itself is still stuck in a leadership crisis of its own.

His career spans sports and exercise medicine, anti-doping, elite athlete healthcare, medical education and hospital practice.

Ethiopian Football Federation submitted the proposal this week, describing it as evidence of "the nation's full readiness to host Africa's biggest footballing event."

Col. Lungu is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of Zambian Premier League side Red Arrows. Before his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Col. Lungu served as Team Manager at Red Arrows.

A multi-stakeholder platform built to turn the country's co-hosting of the Africa Cup of Nations into an economic engine that outlasts the tournament itself.

He takes on partnership strategy, commercial development and rights consultancy for brands and rights holders, working across the agency's client portfolio while supporting new business across the region.

World Athletics will name the 2029 and 2031 hosts after the inaugural Ultimate Championship in Budapest on 11–13 September.

For African football, the proposal is less a distant governance row than a direct financial windfall - and potentially a lasting shift in who holds power over the game.

Since 2023 she had served as Third Vice-President on the executive committee of the Africa School Sport Federation, and has sat as an assessor on the ISF Executive Committee. A positioning that made her a credible continental candidate well before the Belgrade vote.

The former Sharks chief becomes the latest African executive to land a top job in European rugby.

The scope covers the sale and distribution of media rights, sponsorship and marketing assets, with CAF saying it is seeking an "innovative partner" to unlock new revenue streams and lift the commercial value of the competition.

The invitation, issued alongside a bidding framework built with PwC and CAF's technical, financial and legal advisers, is pitched as a transparent, ethical process aligned with global best practice.

For 56 years, one of African football's most valuable brands ran without a dedicated chief executive over its business. That changed this season, and the change matters more than the name attached to it.

Emenalo, the Nigerian-born former technical director at Chelsea and Monaco, was one of the highest-profile executive appointments in the SPL.

The grant will be delivered through existing National Olympic Committee (NOC) structures. Every Olympian. Not just medal winners.

The NFL will stage its 2026 NFL Flag Africa Continental Championship in Kenya from July 9 –11, the league's third edition on the continent and its clearest signal yet that Africa sits at the center of a global expansion strategy built around flag football's 2028 Olympic debut.

The South African outgoing CEO of the National Rugby League, will take charge of Australian tennis in August 2026, emerging from a global search that drew more than 150 candidates and was run by executive search firm Egon Zehnder.