Lausanne, 7 May 2010 – In the procedure initiated by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Togo Football Federation (TFF) and the African Football Confederation (CAF) have reached the following settlement:

The CAF President has accepted to ask the CAF Executive Committee at its meeting of 15 May 2010 to lift the sanctions excluding the TFF from the next two editions of the African Cup of Nations, as the TFF agreed that it did not comply with the CAF competition regulations in relation to the withdrawal of their team from the 2010 African Cup of Nations.

A mediation hearing was led by the FIFA President, Mr Joseph S. Blatter today in Zurich, Switzerland.

Both parties had agreed to interrupt the arbitration procedure which was pending at the CAS in order to commence a mediation procedure under the direction of the FIFA President, who is also a CAS mediator....

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Admittedly, I am not too familar with the Court of Arbitration for Sport or their mediation services.  Has any heard of CAS and what their jurisdiction is?