GENEVA (AP) — FIFA has threatened to suspend Sudan if its government does not lift a ban on several candidates standing in elections for the country’s soccer association executive committee.
The Sudan Sports Commission has also imposed what FIFA calls “a prohibitive fee” that candidates must pay.
FIFA said Friday that it “considers these decisions as unacceptable.”
FIFA added that it would not recognize the results of an election held under such conditions and has a range of sanctions including “suspension or expulsion.”
Sudan is due to host the African Nations Championship and African Confederation congress in 2011.
Nigeria backed down this month after FIFA threatened to suspend it over government interference.
