NAIROBI， March 7 (Xinhua) -- East Africa will back the bid of the sitting Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou to serve his eighth straight term at the forthcoming Electoral Congress in Addis Ababa， Ethiopia.
Kenyan Nicholas Musonye， who is the Secretary General of the regional Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa)， declared in Nairobi on Tuesday that they would back Cameroonian Hayatou， who has been in power since 1988.
The upcoming Congress has divided the continent with the incumbent， who is also a FIFA Vice-President， facing the sternest test to his rule from Mauritius FA head Ahmad Ahmad， who has the support of world governing body leader， Gianni Infantino.
"We have made it clear we will support a proven leader since we know what he has achieved for this region for the years he has been in power. We will not go for someone who has no record in football development，" Musonye asserted.
He claimed as a result of throwing their weight behind Hayatou， FIFA had resorted to intimidate some Cecafa members by opening disciplinary proceeding against 13 nations which make up the regional body.
Last week， FIFA opened the opportunity for sanctions against the nations that took part in the 2015 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
"Why now? We have been running the Challenge Cup for decades and it's only at this time that FIFA have found a problem with the event. These are the kind of things they are doing to intimidate some of our members into voting for their preferred candidate，" Musonye claimed.
"We all agreed we want Hayatou and that is clear，" the Cecafa boss charged.
On his part， Football Kenya Federation President， Nick Mwendwa， stated he would use his vote to elect a leader with the best interests of the country's football.
"So far nothing has been sealed conclusively. I have been mandated to represent the will of football stakeholders in my country which I'm committed to.
"However， we consider goodwill and football development ideas，" Mwendwa was quoted on local website Citizen Digital.
The Council of Southern African Football Associations and some of the Western African States have already declared their support for Ahmad. Enditem
BRATISLAVA Nike Jordan Retro For Sale , Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- The first part of 27th Universiade in Slovakia ended on Sunday with Russian athletes demonstrating domination, abtaining another four medals.
Three of them came from the cross-country skiing competition, 30km free mass start. The gold went to Andray Larkov who won the race in one hour 16 minutes 20.1 seconds. The second place went to Raul Shakirzianov (+0.6) with Artem Nikolaev (+1.6) in third.
"The race was good. The sunshine and snow are also good. We spread our strength so that we could last till the end and I am very happy with the result. I focused on this race since it is my specialty and I am really happy that I won the gold medal," said Larkov.
Russian team Nike Jordan Shoes For Sale , consisting of Evgeniy Klimov, Mikhail Maksimochkin and Ilmir Hazetdinov, won the last competition of this Universiade in ski jumps for men's teams with 723.2 points.
"We are happy with our result. We entered this race wanting to win and we succeeded," said Hazetdinov. Kanta Takanashi Nike Jordan For Sale , Minato Mabuchi and Junshiro Kobayashi from Japan took home silver with 702.3 points.
Polish Andrzej Zapotoczny, Stanislaw Biela and Jakub Kot placed third with 680.3 points and earned their first medal at this Universiade.
The part of the Winter Universiade in Strbske Pleso and Osrblie was in the shadow of the Russian athletes, which got nearly 40 medals, including 14 golds. The Universiade will continue with next 42 events in Granada Air Jordan Retro Shoes For Sale , Spain.
NAIROBI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- The world seems to have double standard in dealing with many things, and there is no exception even when it comes to the issue of terrorism. Attacks in a Western metropolis always draw worldwide attention while those in Africa appear to have only limited repercussions.
Following the terrorist attacks in France last week which claimed 17 lives, there was an unprecedented outpouring of grief and empathy from all corners of the world.
Roughly at the same time Air Jordan Retro For Sale , Nigeria lost an estimated 150 lives in Boko Haram's terrorist attack, but the news merely got a passing mention in major networks.
Similar contrast could also be seen in December last year, when a cafeteria siege by a gunman in Sidney elicited global attention, while a massacre of over 60 people in northern Kenya by the Al-Shabaab was buried to oblivion very fast.
This double standard has irked many across the globe who have expressed their shock at media's "callous indifference" to terrorist attacks in Africa Air Jordan Shoes For Sale , which has more terror hot spots, such as Nigeria, Mali, Somalia Air Jordan For Sale , Kenya and Niger, than any other continent.
Africa-based security think tanks have consistently warned against growing terror threats on the continent due to the embrace of radical ideologies by jobless youths, weak policing and the lack of anti-terrorism resources.
The Global Terrorism Index 2014 indicated that Africa had experienced a spike in terrorism since 2011, identifying Boko Haram Jordan Retro Shoes For Sale , Al-Shabaab and al-Qaida in the Maghreb as the most vicious terror networks on the continent which claimed thousands of lives across Sub-Saharan Africa in the last two years.
In northern Nigerian cities and villages, witnesses have given chilling accounts of walking over dead bodies after Boko Haram slaughtered them, while Kenya has lost 500 civilians and 300 security officers since 2010 when its troops tried to root out Al-Shabaab militants from their bases in Somalia.
"Other parts of the world receive undivided attention whenever terror comes knocking, but it has been different in our case. We are hit with travel advisories when terrorism hits this region .