An extraordinary episode took place at the Africa Cup of Nations meeting.

As part of the match of the first round of the group stage of the African Cup of Nations, Tunisia lost the least to Mali.

Not without a scandal - the chief arbiter of the meeting, Gianni Sikazve, gave two premature final whistles.

First, the referee signaled the end of the game at 86 minutes, and then decided to continue the meeting and blew the whistle again at 89 minutes and 47 seconds..

It is noteworthy that the referee did not compensate anything, given that there were two penalties, a red card and nine substitutions.

The tournament management soon decided that the teams should return to the field and play three minutes, according to journalist Maher Mezahi..

However, the Tunisian national team refused to return to the field, and therefore the Malians stood on the field for the allotted time, waiting for the final whistle of the referee (already the third).

Note that in the biography of judge Gianni Sikazve there is an episode when he was temporarily suspended from work due to suspicions of corruption in the CAF Champions League match.

Recall that this is the ninth match of the African Cup of Nations, in which the teams failed to score more than one goal.