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As part of its efforts to revive women's football in the small horn of African country the Djibouti Football Federation has successfully concluded a ten-day long tournament for 8 women's teams representing schools and colleges in the capital and surrounding regions over the weekend.

The Somali Football Federation has announced the fixtures of the country's football starts tournament during a conference at the SFF headquarters in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning.

The Djibouti Football Federation has given a generous donation of different kinds of equipment to 8 women's football teams in the country, as Djibouti is under huge preparations for the upcoming women football tournament. The league will be the first of its kind to be organized in Djibouti for years.

FIFA MA training course for Somalia's elite football referees has officially got underway in Djibouti on Sunday morning. The course is part of the joint FIFA/ SFF efforts intended to increase the knowledge and experience of referees in the war-torn country.

Dozens of Somali Football referees including national and international levels have on Friday arrived in Djibouti for five day FIFA MA refereeing course. The referees were received at Djibouti's Ambouli international airport by SFF secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab who has been in the city earlier…

With Somalia preparing for its annual FIFA MA refereeing course due in Djibouti early next month, Somali Football Federation education officer Ali Mohamed Ahmed has elaborated the training program schedules in a press statement issued here at the SFF headquarters on Saturday.

The Somali Football Federation has redesigned and sophisticated its bilingual website: www.somsoccer.com whose current shape was admired by many media professionals who termed it as the most 'beautiful' soccer association news portal in Africa.

The president of Djibouti Football Federation Mr. Souleiman Hassan Waberi who is on an official visit to CAF headquarters in Cairo met the president of the continental football governing body (CAF) Mr. Isse Hayatou and secretary General Hicham El Amrani Friday during which several important issues were…

Somali Football referees are under huge preparations for a FIFA level refereeing course for the country's elite referees. The course is slated in the neighbouring Djibouti next month according to a press statement by SFF secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab on Sunday evening.

With the Somali Football federation still struggling to get the country's national facility 'Stadium Mogadishu' back into its hands from the AU military occupation, the country's federal government pledged to end the AU troop presence at stadium Mogadishu in an unspecified future time.…

The Somali Football Federation has successfully concluded the district level soccer for peace tournament in Mogadishu on Friday afternoon with Darkeynley district team wining the trophy after defeating Yaqshid district team by 1-0 in the final match.

In a bid to strengthen its National Football Squad, Somali Football Federation, has appointed technical and administrative representatives in Europe and North America, to recruit Somali footballers in the diaspora for the national team to give them the opportunity to represent their homeland

Somali Football Federation 'SFF' has implemented the 9th youth soccer training centre in Mogadishu as part of the federation's policy to protect young people from falling into the hands of notorious criminals and warmongers in the country.

Somali Football Federation has concluded four-day long memorial events intended to remember former international assistant football referee Abdi Abdullahi Alasow who was killed by unidentified cruel assailants in Mogadishu just three years ago.

A high level delegation from Somali Football Federation under the chairmanship of president Said Mahmoud Nur on Wednesday morning visited two young football players who were slightly wounded in last week's suicide explosions in Mogadishu.

Elman FC and national team striker Abdi Aziz Mohamed Ali popularly known as 'Hoomey' has proceeded for ward in terms of the goal scoring contest of the ongoing Somali Football division one championship.

Somali Football Federation has on Friday resumed in Mogadishu its 2010-2011 1st division soccer championship, which was halted last month because of the regional football tournament held in mid December last year.

At least 45 national and International level Somali Football referees on Thursday ended a four-day refreshment course, before the country's 1st division soccer championship recommences in the capital on Friday.

The Somali Football Federation (SFF) on Saturday held a highly-arranged ceremony intended to mark on the conclusion of the 6th edition of the country's 3rd division football championship. The ceremony was held at the Sahafi international Hotel in Mogadishu.

Teenage boys from Banadir region where Somalia's capital Mogadishu is located have won the country's regional football tournament for peace and development after defeating their Bari region rivals by a goal to nothing in the final match on Friday afternoon.