The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) and the Head Coach of Tanzania, Adel Amrouche, have been charged by the CAF Disciplinary Board for bringing CAF into disrepute. This follows comments made by Amrouche about the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (RMFF) and allegations of Morocco having influence in CAF to manipulate match scheduling and officiating. Amrouche’s remarks were criticised by officials from RMFF, leading to an eight-match suspension for the coach and a fine of $10,000 for the TFF.
As a result of the suspension, Tanzania has suspended Amrouche and appointed Hemed Suleiman Ali as the interim coach. Tanzania is participating in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations and aims to reach the knockout stages for the first time.
Amrouche had previously criticised the influence of RMFF in African football but later retracted his comments, acknowledging Morocco’s success and abilities as a team.
On Tuesday, the TFF distanced itself from Amrouche’s statements, emphasizing that they do not agree with his comments and that CAF follows its own procedures without influence from any country. TFF president Wallace Karia said in a video posted by Azam TV:
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We as [the] TFF do not agree with his comments.
Those are his own personal sentiments as a coach. We are Caf members, and we know Caf follows its own procedures without influence from any country.
The TFF and the Moroccan football federation are friends.
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The interim coach will lead the team in their upcoming matches, including their second group game against Zambia.
Amrouche had been appointed as Tanzania’s coach in March 2023, and this is their third appearance at the Africa Cup of Nations.
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At least 19 were killed and 26 were rescued after the Precision Air flight plunged into Lake Victoria, Tanzania while attempting to land during stormy weather on Sunday.
The plane, which departed from the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, crashed while attempting to land during stormy weather, Al Jazeera reported quoting the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. 
The plane was approaching the airport in the northwestern city of Bukoba when it plunged into the water. Prime Minister told reporters:
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All Tanzanians join you in mourning these 19 people … who have lost their lives.
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Regional commissioner Albert Chalamila said 43 people – including 39 passengers, two pilots and two cabin crew – were on board the plane.
Local authorities and the airline earlier said that 26 survivors out of the 43 people on board flight PW 494 had been pulled to safety and taken to hospital in Bukoba, a lakeside city in the Kagera region.
It was not immediately clear if the 19 victims included rescuers who drowned or whether the 48-seater aircraft had more people on board than previously disclosed, a regional official said.
 Chalamila said there is a possibility that two people were not onboard but died during the rescue effort.”
Precision Air, Tanzania’s largest privately-owned airline, said it had dispatched rescuers to the scene.
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While addressing delegates and attendees at the national congress of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT) Tanzania’s main opposition party, Biti said the government has reduced us to the primitive age because of how they are running the country.
Said the MDC Vice President:
<blockquote>When I slept in my hotel room last night, I could not sleep because there was electricity. Because for six months in my country, I haven’t had electricity. For six months in my country, I wash from a bucket because there is no water,” Biti told his hosts.
So I am not different from my great grandmother who died in 1923. The only difference is that I put on longer dresses than her. But in terms of poverty, Mr Mnangagwa and Zanu PF have taken us to depths that are unheard of.
Little did we know that we were jumping from the pot into the fire. Two years later, Zimbabwe finds itself in the clutches of an illiterate, dysfunctional dictatorship, presided over by a colourless, talent-less man known as Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa. His middle name Dambudzo means trouble. Never call your son Trouble. As I speak to you right now, 95% of Zimbabweans are unemployed.</blockquote>
Tanzania will hold presidential elections this year.
More: <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/mnangagwa-has-taken-zimbabwe-to-1923-standards-of-living-biti/">New Zimbabwe </a>

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