/ 29 September 1999

MALI GETS THE GO-OVER

A THREE-MAN African Football Confederation delegation will visit Mali from October 22-25 to check preparations for the 2002 Nations Cup finals. The visit by president Issa Hayatou from Cameroon and executive committee members Farah Addo from Somalia and Slim Aloulou from Tunisia is the first in a series of inspections. Mali are the sixth West African country to stage the biennial, 16-nation event and matches are planned for the capital,Bamako, and towns of Kayes, Mopti, Segou and Sikasso.