Kenya on Wednesday withdrew its national women’s team from this month’s African Women Cup of Nations qualifiers against Uganda after failing to get the team reinstated by the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF.
The government-sponsored caretaker committee had appealed to the
continent’s football body to allow the Harambee Starlets play the final
round qualifier against the Uganda Crested Cranes in Kampala on
February 17 after the sport’s governing body in Kenya, the FKF, pulled
the team out in January.
Kenyan sports minister Amina Mohammed said last month that a
suspected fraud was behind the team’s sudden withdrawal from the
competition as no such request had been authorised by the government.
But on Wednesday, the committee chairman Justice Aaron Ringera said
officials had “exhausted all avenues” to find a solution that would allow
the team to participate in the qualifiers.
As a result, the Uganda Crested Cranes will now automatically qualify
for the finals to be held in Morocco in August.
