Ballon d'or: here are all the African voters for this 69th edition
Tomorrow, Monday, the 2025 Ballon d'Or will finally be revealed. Discover the identities of all the African journalists who cast their votes.
According to Afrik Foot, a total of 22 African journalists voted for this 69th edition of the Ballon d'Or. In fact, only the top 100 countries in the FIFA rankings were authorized to take part in the vote. And given the closing date, the July rankings were used as the reference.
Morocco, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Cameroon, Mali, South Africa, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ghana, Gabon, Guinea, Zambia, Angola, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, and Benin are the nations eligible to vote.
Here are all the African voters:
South Africa: Mark Gleeson, Reuters
Algeria: Yazid Ouahib, El Watan
Angola: Mateus Goncalves, Radio Lac
Benin: Abdul Fataï Sanni, La Nation
Burkina Faso: Lassina Sawadogo, RTB
Cameroon: Emmanuel Gustave Samnick, L'Actu Sport and Notre Afrik
Cape Verde: Simao Rodrigues, Inforpress
Ivory Coast: Adam Khalil, Sport-ivoire.ci
Egypt: Inas Mazhar, Al-Ahram
Gabon: James Angelo Loundou, L'Union
Ghana: Michael Oti Adjei, Media General Limited and TV3 Network
Guinea: Ibrahima Diallo, Afrikinfomedia
Equatorial Guinea: Fernando Abeso, Real Equatorial Guinea and Diario Mechaap
Mali: Souleymane Bobo Tounkara, L'Essor
Morocco: Mostafa Badri, Almountakhab
Mozambique:
Nigeria: Samm Audu, Scorenigeria
Uganda: Darren Allan Kyeyune, Daily Monitor
DR Congo: Sylvie Meya Muabi, Top Congo FM
Senegal: Idrissa Sané, L'Observateur
Tunisia: Abdesslam Dhaifallah, freelance
Zambia: Mathews Kabamba, freelance