Team TogoTogo's national football squad have decided to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, a day after their bus came under fire.The driver of the bus was killed and nine other people were wounded, including two players, in the attack, claimed by separatist fighters in Cabinda province.
Al Jazeera's sports correspondent Mourad Laraba said the team confirmed their participation following a meeting with Angola officials.
"Yesterday African football federations had a meeting with the officials in Angola in order to ask them for guarantees to secure national team security in Cabinda, and we've just heard that the Togo national team will play in Cabinda," he said. "The show will go on."
Authorities in Angola moved quickly to ensure they were doing everything possible to safeguard the tournament, which they insist will go ahead.
"We are going to further reinforce all the mechanisms and continue to guarantee security and create all the conditions which guarantee the success, and organisation and safety of poeple as planned," Goncalves Muandumba, Angola's minister for youth and sport, said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
WHO TOLD YOU THAT THEY WILL NOT BOYCOTT? THEY ARE ALREADY GONE BACK HOME? IT IS SAD STORY, BUT THE BANDITS THEY KNOW THAT AFRICAN CONTINENT IS JUST FORGETTEN IN AN INTERNATIONAL ARENA, AND THEY KNEW THAT BY DOING SO THEY WILL BRING IT INTO AN OPEN AIR THE CONFLICTS PROLONGS IN AFRICAN CONTINENT SO THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CAN SEAT DOWN AND SOLVE THE AFRICAN PROBLEMS TOO NOT JUST THAT THOSE ONES IN ASIA CONTINENT - IRAQ, IRAN, PAKISTAN, AFAGHASTAN SIMPLY BECAUSE OF OIL. AFRICANS TOO DESERVE TO LIVE IN PEACE AND HORMONY UTILISING THE RESOURCES EQUALLY NOT JUST FOR ELITES. SO THEY USED TOGO TEAM AS AN ADVERTISING TOOL AS THEY KNOW ALL INTERNATIONAL MEDIA WILL BE THERE AND THE INCIDENCE WILL GO GLOBALLY. SO IN AFRICA AS WELL THERE ARE PROBLEMS NEED TO BE LOOK AT INTERNATIONALLY, UNFORTUNATELY SOME PEOLE HAVE DEAD.
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ReplyDeleteTogo, back in? No way! Hang on a minute, is Al Jazeera arabic? Could the fact that the language is written from right to left explain why they would see 78 as 87?
ReplyDeleteHOW DO YOU CONTINUE IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT?? NO ONE WOULD BLAME TOGO FOR DECISION, REALLY.
ReplyDeletePULLING OUT THE BEST IDEA NO MATTER WHAT.
Togo wasijitoe kwa sababu zifuatazo;
ReplyDelete1. Hili ni kombe linajumisha timu nyingi za Africa wakijitoa watatibua utaratibu wa mashindano yote. Haya mashindano ni muhimu sana kwa Wachezaji na Soka Africa nzima.
2. Sababu ya wao kujitoa inaeleweka lakini wakijikaza na kuendelea itapeleka ujumbe mzuri sana kwa Mataifa mengine na hao Majasusi kuwa "No Matter What" Africa is moving forward.
Good News: Mpaka sasa inasemekana Wachezaji wameamua kuendelea na mashindano.
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Reading, UK.
hizo ni tetesi zilizopo ktk vyombo vya habari.kuna taarifa kwamba Adebayor pekee ndo karudi Togo but still hakuna uhakika kama wameshajitoa rasmi ama watabaki kucheza.WAKIBADILI UAMUZI na kucheza hayo mashindano,watakuwa wana matatizo ya akili.
ReplyDeleteaibu...aibu..aibuuuu.they better go home.
Michuzi huu ni upotoshaji wa habari, kwangu mimi naona inawachanganya wasomoji wa blog yako. Wakati TVs sehemu mbali mbali duniani kama vile BBCna DW TV zote zikiongelea habari ya timu ya Togo kujitoa, habari ya kutatanisha inatinga kwenye blog yako, kwa wachezaji wa Toko hawajajitoa! Jambo lingine lenye utata ni idadi ya watu waliokufa, hii post ya kwenye blog yako inaonesha ni dreva tu aliyekufa wakati vyombo vya habari vya kimataifa vinaongelea vifo vya watu watatu.
ReplyDeleteNaomba uwafahimishe tena kwa wino mwekundu kuwa wachezaji wa Wamejitoa.
Bwana michuzi naandika tena kwa mara ya pili kuhusu vyombo vya habari jinsi vinavyojikanyaga. Sasa hivi tu nimesoma nakusikiliza live kwenye BBC ya kwamba hatimaye wachezaji wamekubali kuendelea na mashindano. BBC wenyewe wemekiri kuwa bado mambo hayaeleweki vizuri. Utata mtupu, hivyo ni vizuri kuwa informed muda wote.
ReplyDeleteSHAME ON US. AFRICA, TUNAPELEKA UJUMBE GANI ULIMWENGUNI!
ReplyDeleteMdau Malkiory,stay 50/50.wachezaji wenyewe wana mvutano.some wants to play to honor the lost ones na wengine wameshapoteza munkari wa soka at the moment.
ReplyDeletesince they supposed to play on Monday,the truth abt this will come out shortly.
utata upo baina ya wachezaji wenyewe.Serikali yao ilishawaomba warudi Togo.
nyie mko dunia gani jamani. togo wamejitoa kutokana na amri ya mkuu wa nchi Ayadema. na wametumiwa ndege ya Rais (presidential jet) kwenda kwachukua warudi nyumbani. na tunavyoongea togo wapo LOME togo tayari!!!! ni kweli wachezaji walifanya kikao jana na kuamua kuwa waendelee kama kutoa heshima na kuwaenzi wenzao waliopote3za maisha BUT Rais wao amekaa na ameshatuma ndege ikawachukue. na katika hotuba yake kwa vyombo vya habari amesema '' topgo haishiriki na timu yoyote au kikundi kitakachobeba bendera ya togo basi hiyo itakuwa ni uwakilishi batili''
ReplyDeleteAFRICA AIN´T READY 4 WORLDCUP,MAYBE AFTER NEXT 20YRS NOT NOW TUTAKUJA KUONA VIROJA SANA HUKO SAUZI MWAKA HUU MM NINGEPENDA WORLDCUP ISICHEZWE AFRIKA...
ReplyDeletesishangai kwa watu wa west afrika,vurugu tupu kule jamani tuiombee afrika yetu maana kuna watu wanataka kututawala kinguvu kwa kuzusha migomvi na vita tupigane wenyewe
ReplyDeleteafrika akili kumtwe chonde,afrika grow up spot fighting fellows
wamejitoa na amri imetoka kwa waziri mkuu wa Togo