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Last Updated: Friday, 6 August, 2004, 14:49 GMT 15:49 UK
Fifa lifts Kenya ban
Kenya's football coach Jacob 'Ghost' Mulee
Kenya's coach Jacob Mulee can now get back to work
Fifa has provisionally lifted Kenya's ban from international football.

The decsion was taken during a meeting of its Emergency Committee in Zurich on Friday.

The ban was imposed on Kenya on 2 June for alleged government interference in the sport.

A Fifa statement said that the committee heard a report from its administrative arm which indicated that Kenya's Normalisation Committee had met all the conditions set down by world football's governing body.

The Normalisation Committee, led by former athlete Kipchoge Keino, had been charged with resolving the problems in Kenyan football.

As well setting up Keino's committee there were also two lengthy discussions between Fifa and representatives of Kenyan football and the Kenyan Government.

Those meetings resolved that the Kenya Football Federation would resume its activities, that the rebel clubs would rejoin the official league and the federation's statutes would be revised.

One of those present at the meetings, Fifa's deputy secretary general Jerome Champagne, is expected to arrive in Kenya on Saturday to hold further talks with the Normalisation Committee.

Two other Fifa officials, Egypt's Taha Ismael and Malta Football Association president Joseph Mifsud, are already in Kenya for the talks to which Sports Minister Ochillo Ayacko has also been invited.

KFF officials had been involved in a year long stand-off with former sports minister Najib Balala, who accused them of corruption.

Last month several federation officials were charged with theft from the KFF.

The lifting of the suspension means that the Harambee Stars' three postponed 2006 World Cup qualifying matches against Guinea, Morocco and Tunisia can be re-arranged.

Kenya will mark their return to international football with a friendly against neighbours Uganda in Kampala on Saturday, their first World Cup qualifier is on 4 September at home to Malawi.




SEE ALSO
Kenya plan comeback game
04 Aug 04  |  African
Fifa reaches Kenyan deal
21 Jul 04  |  African
Fifa bans Kenya
02 Jun 04  |  African
2006 World Cup tables
08 Dec 03  |  African



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