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ANOCA President, Intendant General Lassana Palenfo, on 01 Sep-

tember 2011 held an important meeting with Presidents of national

Sports Confederations of Africa, on the sidelines of the 14th ordi-

nary session of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

in Maputo, Mozambique, on 03 and 04 September 2011. The meeting took 

place at the VIP Hotel, Maputo, and afforded participants the opportunity

to size up the management of the African Olympic Movement and review

the cooperation between ANOCA and the Association of African SportsConfederations (AASC) in the build up to next year’s London Olympic

Games. The meeting centred on three cardinal issues.

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First and foremost, participants discussed how to help organise qualiers

for London 2012 in sports disciplines that were not on schedule at the all

Africa Games in Maputo, namely rowing, weightlifting, fencing, shooting,

hockey, archery, wrestling and equestrian. In this regard, the President of 

ANOCA underscored the need for African athletes to be fully prepared for

this planetary event, and promised the African sporting movement’s sup-port to help the concerned confederations to organise these qualiers as

soon as possible.

 

Discussions moved thereafter to preparations for the 2nd edition of the Afri-

can Youth games billed for Botswana, while the organisation of the maiden

ANOCA Games constituted the 3rd item on the agenda. Here, Intendant

General Lassana Palenfo observed that it would be better to choose the

host of this event well in advance so that the host country can have suf-

cient time to prepare.

 

Satised with this initiative taken by the ANOCA president to create a

forum for dialogue, the presidents of African Sports Confederations ex-

pressed their willingness to work with the supreme governing body of the

African Olympic Movement to foster sport on the continent. According to

most presidents, the meeting was an ideal forum for the development of theAfrican sporting and Olympic Movement and afforded them the opportu-

nity to adopt a common vision for the utter fullment of Africa’s youth.

According to Intendant General Lassana Palenfo, “this meeting opens up

prospects for broad-based dialogue, a forum for direct consultation, ex-

change and contact with administrators of continental sports confedera-

tions without any middlemen between ANOCA and the AASC. The Afri-can Sporting and Olympic Movement believes in the principle that unity is

strength, and such strength will enable us work with a cool head to promote

sport and Olympism on the Continent.”

 

The meeting was followed on 12 September 2011 by the AASC General As-

sembly during which Egypt’s Ahmed Fouli, President of the Confederation

of African Taekwondo, was elected to the helm of the association.

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