Eng. Khaled Mhalhel, opened the meeting and greeted the Board, and thanked ‎the attendees for their presence, which is the 1st meeting after the Olympic ‎games, also extend the salutation of the IWF president Dr. Tamas Ajan.‎

Eng. Khaled Mhalhel welcome Mr. Mahmoud Mahgoub president of the Egyptian ‎Weightlifting Federation and Mr. Abdelaziz Brahimi, president of the Algerian ‎Weightlifting Federation as member of the executive board of the Weightlifting ‎Federation of Africa and also congratulate Mr. Mahmoud Mahgoub, president of ‎the Egyptian Weightlifting Federation for the excellent results achieved in the ‎Olympic games, and thanking him for the organization of the 2016 African Youth ‎and Junior Weightlifting Championships in Cairo. ‎

Eng. Khaled Mhalhel, extended condolences on behalf of all African Weightlifting ‎Family for the lost of the young lifter Housseyn Fardjallah at the age 23, in an fatal ‎car accident.‎