North Africa

Morocco has lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against sanctions imposed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after the country withdrew from hosting this year's Africa Cup of Nations national team tournament.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has fined the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) $1m (€880,000) and banned its national team from the next two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations following its withdrawal as host of the 2015 tournament, which concluded on Sunday.

Air Race 1, the international series for the sport of formula one air racing, has announced Tunisia, Spain and the USA will host events in its inaugural World Cup season.

The president of the African Handball Confederation, Mansourou Aremou, has thrown the governing body’s support behind Egypt’s bid to host the sport’s men’s world championship in 2021.

The World Karate Federation (WKF) has announced its Premier League competition will take to Africa and South America for the first time, with Egypt and Brazil awarded legs on the 2015 calendar.

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) has awarded its 2017 World Championships to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, while the evolution of the sport has continued with the introduction of a new fencing format.

Kevin Roberts travelled to Marrakech for the FIH (International Hockey Federation) Congress.

Egypt will not send a team to next month’s International Aquatics Federation (Fina) World Swimming Championships (25m), which is being staged in Qatar.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped the hosting rights for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations from Morocco, and ejected its national team from the tournament, following the refusal of the country’s government to stage the event in its specified dates due to the Ebola crisis.

The Moroccan government has maintained its stance over the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations to leave the Confederation of African Football (CAF) with the prospect of either accepting the request to postpone the tournament or finding a new host nation.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has confirmed it will not change the dates of its 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournament despite the outbreak of Ebola across the continent and has called on host nation Morocco to make a final decision about staging the event by November 8.

The Women’s Squash Association (WSA) has announced that its 2014 World Championship will be staged in Cairo from December 15-20, with the event returning to Egypt for the first time since its inaugural edition in 1979.

Fifa has said that preparations for the 2014 Club World Cup in Morocco remain on course, but world football’s governing body is monitoring the situation concerning the Ebola crisis in Africa.

South Africa’s Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has said the country is “not ready” to host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations if organisers opt to move the national team football tournament from Morocco due to the Ebola epidemic.

Morocco has withdrawn from hosting the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations national team football tournament due to fears over the Ebola crisis, according to Sub-Saharan Africa pay-television broadcaster SuperSport.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has insisted that the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations will go ahead as planned despite a request from host nation Morocco to postpone the event due to the deadly Ebola outbreak.