Ebola a setback for Morocco
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Good friends, let me take you back when Morocco was
supposed to host the 2015 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament but due to
the Ebola outbreak, it was not so. The people of Morocco had the opportunity to
witness one the most entertaining sporting event in Africa but the cruelty of
Ebola didn't allow this to come to pass. Yes, it was a life time opportunity to
have all African eyes on you especially hosting an event that big. In my own
view I think this has created a negative publicity from a public relations
point of view. This has become a set for
them a lot because they have not only lost the rights to host the 2015 finals
but they have suspended from taking part in next coming championship.
I am speaking like this because I know the publicity and
all the attention that you as country receive when hosting an event of that
magnitude since South Africa hosted the tournament twice (1998 & 2013)
including the world cup. Now I wonder "why did the representative of Morocco wanted the tournament to be postponed?" But facts show that
"only four out of the 54 countries have been affected by the virus"
and that excludes Morocco. Moreover the facts showed that the virus has also
affected a few European countries and African countries in the west and my
findings did not show me anything about a Northern African country being
affected by the virus. This led to CAF having to start again and look for the
replacement Morocco to host the tournament. Few countries were suggested to
host the tournament since Morocco failed to do so. Angola, Egypt, Gabon and
Nigeria were countries being touted as possible replacements to host this
tournament. Never the less the country that was named as the new of Afcon 2015
was Equatorial Guinea.
Sport stars unite against Ebola
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| (Picture above)Cristiano Ronaldo(30), 4 times world footballer of the year winner and Real Medrid player , joins the fight against Ebola |
Ebola has been a serious crisis worldwide that has not only
affected African soccer players but also European stars as well, the virus
raised few football stars that they should come together and unite in hopes of
creating more awareness about this chronic disease, in order to fight against
it because this is not a African crisis alone but a Global issue that affects
all. Federation International of
Football Association (FIFA) and World Health Organization came up a campaign to
fight against this disease "together we can beat Ebola" is the name
of the campaign.
So good friends Ebola is serious global crisis that's need to be prevented from spreading, we have cried its enough now and the ball is our hands to make sure that we don't fight a battle that we can't win. "Together we can Ebola".
