10th All-Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique-Referee Camille to officiate at the Games |24 August 2011

Eight countries will complete in the Games’ football tournament which will run from September 3-18. They are Mozambique, Libya, South Africa and Madagascar (group A), Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda and Senegal (group B).

Madagascar automatically qualified for the finals after Seychelles withdrew its participation in the zone 7 (Indian Ocean) preliminaries scheduled to take place between April 15-17, 2011 and the second leg between April 29-30 – May 1, 2011.

Referee Camille is the second confirmed Seychellois official at the Games, following cycling coach Lucas Georges who has been selected as a technical delegate. Coach Georges will act as a Confederation of African Cycling (Cac) technical delegate on the Union Cycliste International (UCI) team.

 This year’s Games will include 22 sports disciplines (two of which will also feature disabled events –athletics and swimming)

The sports disciplines at these Games are athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, chess, cycling, football, gymnastics, handball, judo, karate, netball, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and volleyball.

R. D.