{"id":49671,"date":"2026-11-01T15:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49671"},"modified":"2026-11-01T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:30:13","slug":"caf-names-samson-adamu-as-new-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/caf-names-samson-adamu-as-new-general-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF names Samson Adamu as new General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigerian Samson Adamu has been named as the Confederation of \u200bAfrican Football\u2019s (CAF) new General Secretary, the \u200ccontinental body said this Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Adamu had been acting General Secretary since March after \u200bVeron Mosengo-Omba resigned and later \u200bbecame president of the football federation \u2060in the Democratic Republic of \u200bCongo.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>CAF President Patrice Motsepe said Adamu\u2019s appointment \u200bfollowed a comprehensive recruitment process, during which the position was widely advertised and several \u200bcandidates were interviewed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Adamu has worked \u200bat CAF for the last eight years, serving \u200cas \u2060director of competitions and then director of tournaments and events.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His father Amos Adamu was a member of FIFA\u2019s \u200bexecutive \u200bcommittee but \u2060was banned in 2010 for breaching bribery rules.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Previous CAF \u200bgeneral secretaries included three generations \u200bof \u2060Egypt&#8217;s Fahmy family, with Mourad Fahmy serving from 1961-1982, his son Mustapha \u2060Fahmy \u200bfrom 1982-2010 and grandson \u200bAmr Fahmy from 2017-2019.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49672,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-49671","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Adamu has worked \u200bat CAF for the last eight years.","published_date":"","news_description":"Adamu has worked \u200bat CAF for the last eight years.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49674,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49671\/revisions\/49674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}