ZURICH (AP) — Togo will return to the African Cup of Nations through a peace deal brokered by FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Blatter persuaded African Football Confederation officials Friday to withdraw a two-tournament ban they imposed on Togo after it left the 2010 finals following an attack on the team bus by Angolan gunmen.
CAF president Issa Hayatou will ask his executive committee to lift the sanction at a May 15 meeting.
Two Togo team officials and a driver were killed in the January ambush. The country’s government brought the team home before it played a match.
CAF suspended Togo from the 2012 and 2014 tournaments for political interference in soccer’s affairs. Togo appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which asked Blatter to mediate.
