2024-05-19 19:57:55
Dakar: Senegalese Abdoulaye Thiam new president of the Worldwide Sports activities Press Affiliation, Africa zone, Morad Moutawakkil re-elected 1st vice-president
Dakar – The Senegalese Abdoulaye Thiam was elected, Saturday in Dakar, by consensus new president of the Worldwide Sports activities Press Affiliation AIPS/Africa, whereas the Moroccan Morad Moutawakkil was re-elected 1st vice-president of this physique.
The election occurred this Saturday on the event of the seventh congress of the Worldwide Sports activities Press Affiliation Africa zone, which opened Thursday in Dakar with the participation of representatives from a number of African nations together with Morocco.
Mr. Abdoulaye Thiam, president of the Nationwide Affiliation of the Senegalese Sports activities Press (ANPS), succeeds the Nigerian Obi Mitchell, who after 9 years on the head of AIPS/Africa, has determined to retire.
MM. Thiam and Moutawakkil have been the 2 candidates vying for the presidency of this affiliation. Morad Moutaouakkil, who determined to withdraw his candidacy, was chosen as 1st vice-president of the AIPS. Of the 21 nations current on the Dakar congress solely 19 had the appropriate to vote.
Morocco was represented at this congress by Morad Moutaouakkil, first vice-president of the chief committee of the AIPS, Africa zone, and member of the chief committee of the AIPS, the journalist Amine Birouk, member of the AIPS, zone Africa.
Mr. Thiam is the Editor-in-Chief of the non-public Senegalese day by day newspaper “Sud Quotidien”. He was re-elected as head of the Nationwide Affiliation of the Sports activities Press (ANPS) in August 2021.
2024-05-19 19:57:55