Basketball referees' course opens Monday in Nouakchott

A sub-regional refresher course for high-level basketball referees co-organized by the Mauritanian Basketball Federation and the Association of African Basketball Federations (AFABA) opens in Nouakchott Monday.

The training to be conducted by Larguet Boujemaa Jdaini of Morocco who heads AFABA's technical commission and an expert from FIBA, the Bulgarian Lazarov Valentin, is expected to lead to the promotion of several African and Arab referees to senior grades.