By SAM JACKSON
WORLD Rugby has welcomed Fiji and Samoa onto an expanded Council, while Burkina Faso and Lebanon were accepted as associate members on an historic day for the international federation.
With a new governance model paving the way for wider representation on World Rugby’s Council, the unions will take their place at the May 2019 annual meeting having successfully achieved the required good governance criteria as stipulated within the Bye Laws in line with governance reform launched in November 2015.
Fiji and Samoa follow Georgia, Romania and USA onto the expanded Council a...