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Wednesday 01 Apr 2015 - 15:41 Makkah mean time-12-6-1436  (AFP/file image) Tunis (IINA) – Tunisian Football Federation Vice-president Maher Snoussi has negotiated a deal with the Confederation of African Football (CAF) that will enable the country to compete in the 2017 African Nations Cup qualifiers, Reuters reported.
The federation was threatened with expulsion from the preliminary tournament if it did not apologize by March 31 for claims of bias by Tunisian officials in a chaotic end to their campaign in this year's Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea.
Snoussi told reporters on Monday that he had met CAF president Issa Hayatou in Dakar this month and agreed on a solution to the dispute between the two bodies.
Tunisia agreed to withdraw their protest lodged to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after CAF fined them about $50,000 for violent conduct by its players and threatened to ban them from the next tournament if the federation did not apologize for remarks made about officials after the 2-1 quarterfinal loss to hosts Equatorial Guinea.
CAF said at the time it "instructed the Tunisian federation to send to CAF a letter of apology for the insinuations of bias and lack of ethics against CAF and its officials, or to present irrefutable evidence to substantiate the accusations".
The North Africans were incensed when Mauritian referee Rajindraparsad Seechurn awarded the hosts a penalty in the dying minutes which allowed them to take the game to extra-time and ultimately triumph 2-1. Seechurn was banned for six months by CAF for his role in the incident.
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