Algeria Football Federation president Mohamed Raouraoua has been elected onto Fifa's executive committee. Raouraoua, 64, took one of two places, with Ivorian Federation chief Jacques Anouma retaining his spot.
South Africa World Cup organiser Danny Jordaan missed out, gaining only 10 votes in fourth place. Raouraoua replaces disgraced Nigerian official Amos Adamu, who Fifa suspended for seeking bribes during the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests.
Raouraoua – who has had two separate terms at the head of Algerian football – won with 39 votes, while Anouma was re-elected for a second four-year term with 35 after the voting in Sudan.
Suketu Patel of the Seychelles mustered 12 votes to beat Jordaan while Adamu's replacement, compatriot Ibrahim Galadima, finished last with just five. All 53 member countries of the Confederation of African Football (Caf) had two votes.
Zambia's Kalusha Bwalya had withdrawn from the contest earlier in the month but the 1988 African Footballer of the Year still had plenty to celebrate in Khartoum. The former PSV Eindhoven star took one of six available places on Caf's executive committee when emerging as a clear leader in the Southern Zone.
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