The decision will be announced at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on the eve of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Football's world governing body has changed its approach to selecting World Cup hosts and rejects claims from the African Football Confederation (CAF) that the technical evaluation of bids is loaded in favor of richer nations. "I challenge anyone to point out an organization that conducts a bidding process as fair, objective and transparent as the one that FIFA is carrying out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup," FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Monday. FIFA's technical evaluation committee led by Swiss lawyer Marco Villiger and former AC Milan and Croatia star Zvonimir Boban is due to evaluate the facilities and infrastructure of the two candidates in April. A source close to CAF complained that the evaluation process was unfair.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 27, 2018 03:45 UTC