AFCON 2025: Officials List Revealed

For the 2025 AFCON in Morocco, twenty-eight officials will represent the various African federations during the competition. Now that the list of selected referees is known, it includes referees from several regions of the continent.

The countries concerned have one or two representatives. This distribution highlights a diverse group of officials from North, West, Central, East, and Southern Africa.

Algeria, Egypt, Gabon, Mauritania, and Morocco each have two referees selected for the competition. These countries thus have the largest contingents on this list.

List of selected referees:

1- Ghorbal Mustapha (Algeria)

2- Gamou Youcef (Algeria)

3- Djindo Louis Houngnandande (Benin)

4- Mdabihawenimana Pacifique (Burundi)

5- Nfere Aboub Abdoul (Cameroon)

6- Alhadji Allalou Mahamat (Chad)

7- Messie Jessie Oved N. Moutouo (Congo)

8- Kpan Clement Franklin (Ivory Coast)

9- Ndala Ngambo Jean-Jacques (DR Congo)

10- Mohamed Mansour Maarouf (Egypt)

11- Amin Mohamed Omar (Egypt)

12- Atcho Pierre Ghislain (Gabon)

13- Mebiame Patrice Tanguy (Gabon)

14- Daniel Nii Ayi Laryea (Ghana)

15- Kamaku Peter Waweru (Kenya)

16- Traoré Boubou (Mali)

17- Abdel Aziz Bouh (Mauritania)

18- Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

19- Herallal Ahmed Imtehaz (Mauritius)

20- Jalal Jayed (Morocco)

21- Kach Grafe Mustapha (Morocco)

22- Uwikunda Samuel (Rwanda)

23- Issa Sy (Senegal)

24- Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)

25- Abongile Tom (South Africa)

26- Mahmood Ali Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)

27- Mehrez Melki (Tunisia)

28- Shamira Nabadda (Uganda)