FFA announces details of selection process and timing for new Caltex Socceroos Head Coach

Former Caltex Socceroos Mark Bresciano, Stan Lazaridis and Mark Schwarzer are among a panel of experts who will advise Football Federation Australia (FFA) on the appointment of a new Head Coach for the Caltex Socceroos that will be contesting the FIFA World Cup in Russia next year.

Lazaridis is also an external member of the FFA Board’s Football Development Committee.

FFA chief executive David Gallop said the trio, who have 253 international caps between them and all represented Australia at the FIFA World Cup, will be working with FFA’s Head of National Performance, Luke Casserly, Caltex Socceroos Assistant Coach Ante Milicic (both of whom are also former Socceroos), FFA’s National Technical Director Eric Abrams and FFA’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Mark Jones. The appointment of two international experts is expected to be finalised in the near future.

FFA has also appointed leading international search and consulting firm SRi Executive to facilitate the process.

SRi’s Sydney-based Managing Partner ANZ, Jonathan Harris, will manage the process in cooperation with SRi’s Global Football Elite & High Performance team, who are based across four continents.

The advisory panel and SRi are working with FFA on the criteria for selecting the new coach and will be involved in initial interviews.

FFA will make the final decision with an appointment to be made by mid-February next year which will give the successful candidate more than a month to prepare before the Caltex Socceroos anticipated next games in March.

“As you would expect, we have had a high level of interest already,” said Mr Gallop.

“As things stand, no-one is ruled in or out. We are open minded about whether the coach is Australian or someone from overseas but they must live in Australia, embrace the progress on and off the field that has been achieved with national teams over the past four years – especially in the areas of technical development and sports science – and be prepared to be an ambassador for our sport here and abroad.

“FFA’s starting point is to appoint a coach for the long term but we will be advised on this and other matters by our expert panel.

“We are confident that we will attract the right person to lead the Caltex Socceroos at the FIFA World Cup and hopefully beyond.”

 

Source  :  Socceroos Website

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Five terrorists killed, 6 arrested: Interior Ministry

Al-Masry Al-Youm

December 4, 2017
5:01 pm

The Interior Ministry announced the killing of five terrorists in an armed battle with security forces in a desert area between the cities of the 10th Ramadan and Bilbis. It also announced thwarting a terrorist scheme in the Governorates of Cairo and Assiut by arresting six suspected plotters.

The killed terrorists used a hut located in the desert area between the 10th of Ramadan and Bilbis in Sharqiya Governorate, for weapons training, according to a statement by the Interior Ministry. They planned hostile operations in Sinai and other Governorates, the statement added.

At dawn on Monday, police forces besieged the hut, killing five terrorists.

A large quantity of ammunition, four automatic rifles, three IEDs, and other materials used in the manufacture of explosives were found in the suspects’ possession, said the statement.

The location of six others belonging to the same terror cell were identified and arrested.

Ammunition and two rifles were found in their possession, according to the statement.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

 

Source  :  Egypt Independent

Egypt to receive third IMF loan payment by end of December: Finance Minister

Al-Masry Al-Youm

December 4, 2017
5:08 pm

The Minister of Finance, Amr al-Garhy, stated on Monday that Egypt is set to receive its third dispersal of the IMF loan, worth $2 billion, by the end of December.

The IMF’s executive board will meet during the third week of December to approve of the payment to Egypt, raising the total amount of loans provided for Egypt to $6 billion, Garhy said.

Egypt’s government has set an ambitious program for economic reform, seeking to achieve higher growth rates. The reform, if successful, will make the climate more attractive to investment and development, Garhy added.

The government is currently restructuring administrative state bodies to aid the government’s bureaucratic performance, as well as in supporting public needs and services, he stressed.

Earlier this month, IMF mission chief for Egypt Subir Lall said that Egyptians will start feeling the effects of the country’s economic reform program in 2018.

“Inflation will continue to decline, and in terms of living standards, that will be felt much more clearly, especially in 2018, […] it will be transformational in this regard,” Lall said in an interview with the privately-owned CBC satellite channel.

Edited translation from al-Masry al-Youm

 

 

Source  :  Egypt Independent

Halayeb and Shalateen Sudanese territory: Sudanese FM

Al-Masry Al-Youm

December 5, 2017
12:18 pm

In the midst of a growing political crisis between Egypt and fellow Nile Basin countries, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour reasserted his country’s claim that the regions of Halayeb and Shalateen are Sudanese, not Egyptian territory.

“The Sudanese people will not forget Halayeb, and will hand it over, generation after generation,” he said, adding, “we do not want Halayeb to be a cause of a fight or combat between Sudan and Egypt,” he told Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV channel.

The Foreign Minister went on to say that “we have a firm belief that the Saudi-Egyptian agreement [regarding the region] touches a precious part of our maritime borders.”

“Either we agree with Saudi Arabia [which supports Sudan in the matter] or resort to the international law.”

According to the host of the program, an agreement was signed between Saudi Arabia and Sudan in 1974 recognizing Halayeb as belonging to Sudan.

The Halayeb and Shalateen issue was renewed after Cairo and Riyadh earlier this year signed a maritime demarcation agreement stipulating that the sovereignty over the Egyptian-administered islands of Tiran and Sanafir would be transferred to Saudi Arabia.

In his comments, Ghandour pointed out that Khartoum had contacted both Cairo and Riyadh following the Egyptian-Saudi treaty but has as of yet not received any response.

Meanwhile, a number of member of the Sudanese parliament has threatened to move the case into the international arena, mentioning a potential lawsuit against Egypt due to the country’s “continuing assaults on the citizens of the Halayeb region”.

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

 

Source  :  Egypt Independent

Cameroun – Lions Indomptables – Rigobert Song prêt à remplacer Hugo Broos: «Si une proposition m’est faite, je ne vais pas hésiter parce que nous sommes-là pour servir le pays»

Rigobert Song J M Nkoussa

L’ancien capitaine emblématique des Lions Indomptables veut cependant pour l’instant se focaliser sur la préparation du CHAN 2018.

Le contrat de Hugo Broos à la tête des Lions Indomptables ne sera pas renouvelé.   Arrivé en février 2016, l’entraîneur belge qui a conduit le Cameroun un an plus tard, à son 5è titre de champion d’Afrique, devrait quitter ses fonctions dans les prochains jours. C’est la quintessence d’une résolution prise hier 4 décembre 2017 par le Comité de normalisation de la Fédération Camerounaise de Football (FECAFOOT).

Une nouvelle à laquelle Hugo Broos n’a pas tardé de réagir. « A partir du moment où je recevrai un document officiel, on va essayer de régler les choses. Le Cameroun est obligé de payer mon salaire, c’est tout, ainsi que tous les arriérés qu’ils me doivent. Pour moi, il n’y a pas de problème à partir du moment où ils payent ce qu’ils me doivent. Mais ils doivent me payer encore beaucoup d’argent », a dit l’ancien entraîneur du Fc Bruges.

Hugo Broos prêt à partir, qui pour le remplacer ? C’est la principale question qui alimente les choux gras de la presse depuis l’annonce de la nouvelle. Interrogé sur le sujet quelque jour plutôt, Rigobert Song s’était dit prêt à prendre ses responsabilités, mais après le CHAN 2018 – il est le sélectionneur de l’équipe nationale A primes- « Pour le moment, je n’y pense pas. J’ai mon attention tournée vers le CHAN. Maintenant si après, on gagne et qu’une proposition m’est faite, je ne vais pas hésiter parce que nous sommes-là pour servir le pays », avait déclaré l’ancien capitaine de l’équipe nationale.

Recordman du nombre de sélection chez les Lions Indomptables (137), « Magnan » comme on l’appelle au Cameroun, bénéficie d’une grosse côte de popularité chez les fans du ballon rond. Ces derniers n’ont pas oublié son attitude de conquérant sur les pelouses. Ce qui lui a sans doute permis de remporter 2 CAN, de disputer une finale de la Coupe des confédération et de participer à 4 éditions de la Coupe du monde. S’il venait à être choisi, sa nomination serait sans doute bien accueillie.

 

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Cameroun – Crise anglophone: Les populations du Département de la Manyu seraient en train de fuir vers le Nigéria

Crise anglophone: Les camerounais fuient vers le Nigeria (Dec. 2017) Mark Bareta

Sans doute n’ont-elles pas entendu lorsque le Préfet a annoncé qu’il retirait le communiqué qui leur intimait l’ordre d’évacuer…

L’exode a démarré:

 

Crise anglophone: Les camerounais fuient vers le Nigeria (Dec. 2017)(c) Mark Bareta

Crise anglophone: Les camerounais fuient vers le Nigeria (Dec. 2017)(c) Mark Bareta

Crise anglophone: Les camerounais fuient vers le Nigeria (Dec. 2017)(c) Mark Bareta

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Cameroun – Business: L’insécurité due aux attaques terroristes de Boko Haram dans la région de l’Extrême-Nord a fait perdre aux Brasseries du Cameroun 10% de ses ventes en 2017

Bière camerounaise Archives

Ces pertes sont liées également à la contrebande et à la fraude des produits brassicoles provenant notamment de la Guinée Equatoriale et du Nigéria voisins, apprend-on.

Ces pertes sont également plus conséquentes par rapport à 2016. En effet, cette année-là, les ventes globales des bières dans le pays ont régressé de 0,6% par rapport en 2015, du fait, en partie, des «massives importations illégales en provenance du Nigeria», révélait l’entreprise dans son rapport annuel.

Malgré cet environnement pas toujours favorable, «35 milliards de francs CFA ont été investis cette année, tandis que les impôts et taxes diverses reversées au trésor public sont de 206,6 milliards de francs CFA, ce qui fait de ce groupe le premier contributeur de l’Etat», a affirmé le directeur général des Brasseries du Cameroun, Emmanuel De Tailly.

C’était vendredi 1^er décembre 2017 à Douala, alors qu’il faisait le point sur «le plan de reconquête et de développement», lancé un an après son arrivée à la tête de cette entreprise. Selon Emmanuel De Tailly, «ce fleuron du secteur agro-alimentaire», se porte nettement mieux par rapport à l’année dernière.

Les Brasseries du Cameroun s’apprêtent d’ailleurs à distribuer des dividendes dès le jeudi 7 décembre 2017, chose qui n’a pu être faite l’année dernière à cause «d’une conjoncture difficile», a-t-on appris.

Bon à savoir, le groupe SABC qui totalise 6000 emplois au total, dont 3000 emplois directs, est composé de trois entités: les Brasseries, la Société camerounaise de verrerie (SOCAVER) et la Société des eaux minérales du Cameroun (SEMC).

Avec sept usines à travers le pays, la SABC qui contrôle 72 % des parts du marché de la bière du pays entend renforcer son leadership dans le cadre de son 70è anniversaire en 2018, alors que son patrimoine est estimé à 700 milliards de francs CFA a révélé son top management.

 

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