{"id":54692,"date":"2026-02-08T20:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/paulos-weldehaimanot-elected-cecafa-president"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:09:57","slug":"paulos-weldehaimanot-elected-cecafa-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/paulos-weldehaimanot-elected-cecafa-president","title":{"rendered":"Paulos Weldehaimanot Elected CECAFA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong> <\/span>The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) have voted a new executive Committee to be headed by Paulos Weldehaimanot Andemariam for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>The CECAFA Elective General Assembly attended by all 11 Member Associations and graced by FIFA, CAF and other stakeholders took place at the Djibouti Palace Kempinski on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Weldehaimanot, also President of the Eritrea National Football Federation (ENFF) was elected unopposed.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA), Moses Hassim Magogo and Alexandre Muyenge, President of the Burundi Football Federation (BFF) had earlier withdren their candidature for presidency.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cI declare Weldehaimanot Andemariam the new President of CECAFA,\u201d<\/b> announced Jean Sseninde, the CECAFA Interim Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Somali Football Federation (SFF), Ali Abdi Mohamed is the new Vice President, while Francis Amin Michael and Shema Ngoga Fabrice, Presidents of the South Sudan Football Federation (SSFF) and Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA) respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the Assembly for having confidence in me. I promise that we shall be very accountable with a lot of integrity and also make sure we get more sponsors,\u201d said the new elected President of CECAFA.<\/p>\n<p>Fezal Ismael Sidat, the 5th Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) speaking on behalf of the President Dr. Patrice Motsepe congratulated the new leadership of CECAFA. \u201cWe thank CECAFA for the continuous work they are doing and congratulate them that they will host AFCON 2027 in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda,\u201d added Sidat.<\/p>\n<p>Gelson Tavares Fernandes, Director of Member Associations at FIFA also congratulated the newly elected leadership of CECAFA. \u201cOn behalf of the FIFA President Gianni Infantino, we thank all members. We shall stand with you and we expect commitment, engagement and hard work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b>New CECAFA Executive Committee<\/b><\/p>\n<p>President: Paulos Weldehaimanot Andemariam (Eritrean National Football Federation)<\/p>\n<p><b>All Federation<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Vice President: Ali Abdi Mohamed (Somali Football Federation)<\/p>\n<p><b>Executive Committee<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Francis Amin Michael (South Sudan Football Federation)<\/p>\n<p>Shema Ngoga Fabrice (Rwanda Football Federation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Eritrea<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. The Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) have voted a new executive Committee to be headed by Paulos Weldehaimanot Andemariam for the next four years. The CECAFA Elective General Assembly attended by all 11 Member Associations and graced by FIFA, CAF and other stakeholders took place at the Djibouti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,17],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-54692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-eritrea"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paulos Weldehaimanot Elected CECAFA President - Eritrea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Eritrea. 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