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FAIR launches Africa’s first ‘Arizona Project’

22 September 2010

Soccer corruption story published in eight countries

FAIR has launched Africa’s first ever Arizona project. The investigation ‘Killing soccer in Africa’ was started when a journalist in Cameroon was severely assaulted after he had started probing the financial affairs of (Cameroonian) Confederation of African Football President, Issa Hayatou. FAIR decided then and there to commission a transnational team on the subject of corruption in African soccer, ‘Arizona’ style.

To see the dossier, click through from the homepage on http://www.fairreporters.org/?home.

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