Nations Cup qualifiers: Ivorian govt calls for calm after Senegal crowd trouble
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA)
- The Ivorian government has urged its citizens to refrain from any
reprisal attacks against Senegalese nationals living in the country,
following Saturday's crowd trouble during a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
match between the two countries in Dakar.
Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi made the call on the state-run broadcaster RTI 1 on Saturday evening.
"I make this appeal for calm and peace. We asked our men to patrol the town to prevent any violence," Mr. Koffi Koffi said.
The match was abandoned in the 76th minute, after home fans went on rampage following two goals by Didier Drogba that sealed the qualification for his team and eliminated Senegal.
In the first leg played on 8 September in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire won 4-2.
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Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi made the call on the state-run broadcaster RTI 1 on Saturday evening.
"I make this appeal for calm and peace. We asked our men to patrol the town to prevent any violence," Mr. Koffi Koffi said.
The match was abandoned in the 76th minute, after home fans went on rampage following two goals by Didier Drogba that sealed the qualification for his team and eliminated Senegal.
In the first leg played on 8 September in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire won 4-2.
-0- PANA BAL/JSG/JEN/ Oct 14th 2012
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bène, Mauritius (PANA) - The Indian Ocean
commission (IOC) has launched a platform, ''Women, sustainable
development and food security (FDDSA),'' in Mahajanga, Madagascar,
official sources told PANA on Saturday at the IOC headquarter
The 9th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
Partnership Platform Meeting ended here Wednesday with member countries
tasked to put into practice the lessons learnt, in order to improve
nutrition and agricultural production, create jobs and reduce poverty on
the continent.
African countries have been told to invest more in Youth development
and put in place incentives that will encourage them to take to farming
as way of solving the unemployment problems, reduced poverty and create
wealth, according to the NEPAD Director of Programmes, Estherine
Fotabong.
Some 20 African countries will benefit from the African Development
Bank's (AfDB's) US$63.24 million-fund initiative known as the Support
for Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC),
one of the three implementers of the project in Africa, the
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), said in a
statement obtained by PANA here Sunday
