African Sports Confederation of Disabled

The African Paralympic Committee (APC) or the African Sports Confederation of Disabled (ASCOD) is an organization based in Cairo, Egypt. Its African membership is 40 National Paralympic Committees.[3]

African Paralympic Committee
FormationAPC: April 2010[1]
TypeSports federation
HeadquartersCairo, Egypt
Membership
40 National Paralympic Committees
President
Leonel da Rocha Pinto (2010-present)[2]
Websitehttp://www.ascod.org/

Member countries

In the following table, the year in which the NPC was recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is also given if it is different from the year in which the NPC was created.

NationCodeNational Paralympic CommitteeCreatedRef.
 Algeria ALG Algerian National Paralympic Committee [4]
 Angola ANG Comite Paralimpico Angolano [4]
 Benin BEN Federation Handisport du Benin-Comité National Paralympique
 Botswana BOT Paralympic Association of Botswana
 Burkina Faso BUR National Paralympic Committee Burkina Faso
 Burundi BDI Burundi Paralympic Committee
 Cameroon CMR Cameroonian National Paralympic Committee 2011 [5][6][7]
 Cape Verde CPV Comité Caboverdeano Desp. Para Deficientes
 Central African Republic CAF Comité National Paralympique Centrafricain
 Congo CGO Comité National Paralympique Congolais
 Côte d'Ivoire CIV Fédération Ivoirienne des Sports Paralympiques
 Egypt EGY Egyptian Paralympic Committee
 Ethiopia ETH Ethiopian Paralympic Committee
 Gabon GAB Federation Gabonaise Omnisports pour Paralympique pour Handicapées
 Gambia GAM Gambia Association of the Physically Disabled
 Ghana GHA National Paralympic Committee of Ghana
 Guinea GUI Guinea Paralympic Committee
 Guinea-Bissau GBS Guinea-Bissau Federation of Sports for the Disabled suspended
 Kenya KEN Kenya National Paralympic Committee
 Lesotho LES National Paralympic Committee of Lesotho
 Liberia LBR Liberia National Paralympic Committee
 Libya LBA Libyan Paralympic Committee
 Madagascar MAD Fédération Malagasy Handisport
 Mali MLI National Paralympic Committee of Mali
 Mauritania MTN National Paralympic Committee of Mauritania - suspended [8]
 Mauritius MRI Mauritius National Paralympic Committee
 Morocco MAR Royal Moroccan Federation of Sports for Disabled
 Mozambique MOZ Paralympic Committee Mozambique
 Namibia NAM Namibia National Paralympic Committee
 Niger NIG Fédération Nigérienne des Sports Paralympiques
 Nigeria NGR Nigeria Paralympic Committee
 Rwanda RWA National Paralympic Committee of Rwanda
 Senegal SEN Comité National Provisoire Handisport et Paralympique Sénégalais
 Sierra Leone SLE Sierra Leone Paralympic Committee [8]
 Somalia SOM Somali Paralympic Committee [8]
 South Africa RSA South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee 1991
 Sudan SUD Sudan National Paralympic Committee
 Tanzania TAN Tanzania Paralympic Committee
 Togo TOG Federation Togolaise de Sports pour Personnes Handicapees
 Tunisia TUN Tunisian Paralympic Committee 1990
 Uganda UGA Uganda National Paralympic Committee
 Zambia ZAM National Paralympic Committee of Zambia 2005
 Zimbabwe ZIM Zimbabwe National Paralympic Committee 2010

See also

References
  1. Pan-African and paralympic games top agenda of meeting, portalangop.co.ao, February 8, 2011
  2. Angolan elected new President of ASCOD, insideworldparasport.biz, February 1, 2010
  3. Constitution Archived 2004-09-04 at Archive.today, ascod.org
  4. National Paralympic Committees - African Region Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine, ascod.org
  5. "Notre Organisation - International Paralympic Committee". Comité National Paralympique Camerounais (CNPC) (in French). Comité National Paralympique Camerounais (CNPC). 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-18. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  6. "Cameroun : élection du président du comité national paralympique-Le Quotidien du Peuple en ligne". People's Daily (China) (in French). August 23, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  7. "Quatre nouvelles fédérations sportives bientôt au Cameroun" (in French). 237online.com. March 18, 2011. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  8. "National Paralympic Committees - Africa". International Paralympic Committee. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved October 14, 2016.


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