The Ghana Football Association confirms that Kwesi Appiah will continue as Black Stars coach.

This followed a meeting of the Executive Committee of the GFA after an appraisal of the Black Stars' performance at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.

The Ex.Co considered all aspects of Ghana’s performance and operations at the Nations Cup in South Africa and it was agreed that Appiah is the best man to continue coaching the Black Stars.

President of the GFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi said: “We reviewed Ghana's participation at this competition and are very quick to admit that the performance fell below the expectation of everyone of us.

“We will like to render an unqualified apology to all Ghanaians. We have looked at the reports and very useful lessons have been drawn on the way forward.

“We also looked at the coaching department of the team. We thought that once the team did not do well, then performance [of the coach] was also an issue that ought to be looked at.

“The technical team headed by the head coach - Kwesi Appiah - did a commendable job considering that this was the first outing at such a major competition. However, we thought that the team deserve to do better.

“We are looking at how to strengthen the capacity of the technical team to bring them to a level that will enable them do better in subsequent competitions.”

Ghana finished fourth at Africa Cup of Nations.