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The road to the World Cup : Africa qualifiers.
Second Round: Nine countries divided in three groups. Top team in each group qualifies.
▓
Group A
▓
Team        W    L    D    F    A    pts
Ivory Coast    2    0    1    4    2    5
Nigeria        1    1    0    5    3    2
Algeria        0    2    1    2    6    1
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Results:
Friday, April 16
At Tiemcen, Algeria
Algeria 1, Ivory Coast 1

Sunday, May 2
At Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast 2, Nigeria 1

Saturday July, 3
At Lagos , Nigeria
Nigeria 4, Algeria 1

Sunday, July 18
At Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast 1, Algeria 0

Saturday, Sept. 25
Nigeria Vs Ivory Coast

Friday, October 8
Algeria Vs Nigeria

▓
Group B
▓
Team        W    L    D    F    A    PTS
Morocco        2    1    0    5    3    4
Zambia        1    0    0    2    1    2
Senegal        0    2    0    1    4    0
▓
Results:
Sunday, April 18
At Casablanca, Morocco
Morocco 1, Senegal o

Sunday, May 2
At Dakar, Senegal
Senegal Vs Zambia (PPD plane crash)

Sunday, July 4
At Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia 2, Morocco 1

Saturday, Aug. 7
At Dakar, Senegal
Senegal Vs Zambia

Sunday, Sept. 26
At Lusaka, Zambia
Zambia Vs Senegal

Sunday, October 10
At Casablanca, Morocco
Morocco Vs Zambia

▓
Group C:
▓
Team        W    L    D    F    A    PTS
Cameroon    2    1    0    4    2    4
Guinea        1    2    0    4    4    2
Zimbabwe    1    1    0    1    3    2
▓
Results:

Sunday, April 18
At Yaounde, Cameroon
Cameroon 3, Guinea 1

Sunday, May 2
At Conakry, Guinea
Guinea 3, Zimbabwe 0

Sunday, July 4
At Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe 1, Cameroon 0

Sunday, July 18
At Conakry, Guinea
Guinea 0, Cameroon 1

Sunday, Sept. 26
At Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Vs Guinea

Sunday, October 10
At Yaounde, Cameroon
Cameroon Vs Zimbabwe.


My picks for the three final qualifiers:
Group A: Ivory Coast
Group B: Zambia
Group C: Cameroon

Any Comments?




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Press release: 19 July 1993

Somalia Enslaved exhibition opens in London

An exhibition which exposes the United Nation's brutal regime in Somalia
opens in London on Tuesday.

Somalia Enslaved features new photographs showing the maltreatment of
Somali prisoners by UN soldiers in Aadan Jabal district; a harrowing
video depicting the horrific aftermath of the 13 June UN attack on a
demonstration in Mogadishu; and a hitherto unpublished roll call of
those killed in the UN/US gunship assault on the capital last Monday.

Dyannah Stevenson, who organised Somalia Enslaved with the help of the
Campaign Against Militarism, aims to highlight the reality behind the
UN's humanitarian mask. 'In Somalia', she says, 'UN "peace" is imposed
with machine guns, "aid" is delivered by Cobra gunships and the
"warlords" wear blue helmets'.

The press are invited to the preview of the exhibition on:

Monday 19 July, 6.30-9-30pm
The Edge gallery
92 Cromer Street
London WC1 8DD

Somalia Enslaved, mounted in conjunction with the Campaign Against
Militarism, is open from 20 July-14 August. For further information
and interviews call Kirsten Cale on [phone].

The Edge, 92 Cromer Street, London, WC1H 8DD
Tel [phone]  Fax [phone]


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SOMALIS ANSWER BOMBS WITH GUERRILLA WAR
Pentagon attack on civilians stirs condemnation worldwide

By Brian Becker

The United States-led military invasion of Somalia is in deep
trouble. The mask of the "humanitarian mission" has been torn off.
As in Vietnam, the Pentagon is now resorting to terrorizing the
population with aerial attacks. The airlifts of food that the
imperialist armies used to prettify their initial invasion have
been replaced by bombs and tanks. But each attack only fuels
popular anger and hatred towards the invaders.

DAY OF INFAMY

July 12 was the day that for Somalis will live in infamy. U.S.
Cobra and Blackhawk attack helicopters fired missiles and thousands
of cannon rounds in an unprovoked attack against heavily populated
southern Mogadishu, killing many civilians. Somali sources said the
toll was 73; the Red Cross confirmed 54 dead. The UN forces, led by
the Pentagon, would only admit to having killed 15.

But this terror raid did not achieve the desired result of
intimidating the population. Instead, huge crowds of angry
protesters immediately took to the streets, carrying the bodies of
those who died from aerial attack. An enraged crowd of women, men
and youth attacked those associated with the foreign occupation.
Four journalists for the Western media were killed by the crowd.

When Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cockily
announced last December that the Pentagon had sent sufficient
"overwhelming force to dominate the entire country," he miserably
underestimated the most important obstacle to the takeover of
Somalia: the anti-imperialist consciousness of the Somali people
forged in their long history of resistance to colonial domination.

TROOPS PINNED DOWN BY POPULATION

Even the sheer brutality of the July 12 U.S. aerial bombing and
missile attack on Mogadishu--ostensibly aimed at the headquarters
of Somali General Mohammed Farah Aidid--should not conceal the most
important factor in the current military situation: The 21,000 U.S.
and UN troops now in Somalia are forced to attack from the air
because they are unable to operate on the ground without being
routinely confronted with mass demonstrations, sniper fire, sapper
attack, and resistance of all sorts.

The Washington Post of July 13 summarizes the deteriorating
situation for the occupying forces: "Thousands of United Nations
troops are garrisoned in their compound ... as Mogadishu slides
further toward full-scale guerrilla war [and] anger among many
Somalis toward foreigners has been growing."

ITALIANS, GERMANS WANT TO BRING TROOPS HOME

The armed and mass character of the resistance has led to the first
apparent rift in the imperialist coalition that the U.S. patched
together under the auspices of the United Nations.

Italy's Defense Minister, Fabio Fabbri, asked the United Nations on
July 12 to reconsider the goals of the Somali mission. "We are
suggesting a period to cool off tensions, a suspension of combat
operations, a relaunching of dialogue, a request to disarm," Fabbri
said.

Widespread opposition to the mission surfaced in Italy after its
2,400-member contingent engaged armed Somali units on July 2. Three
Italian soldiers were killed and 27 others wounded. They were the
first Italian ground troops killed in combat since World War II.

Italy and Britain conquered Somali territory in the 1880s and were
the colonial powers there until World War II. Italy's participation
in the door-to-door searches and military sweeps aiming at the
arrest of General Aidid must be especially grating to a population
that suffered the indignity of Italian colonial rule--including two
decades under the heel of the fascist Mussolini.

The Italian government must now reckon with domestic public opinion
and a parliament which opposes "a long period of war-like
occupation," Defense Minister Fabbri told reporters. Opposition
parties are calling for the withdrawal of Italian troops.

Germany's opposition Social Democratic party is also calling for
the withdrawal of the 1,600 German troops sent to northern Somalia
on a "humanitarian mission" by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. This was
also Germany's first overseas deployment since World War II.

WHO'S THE WARLORD?

The U.S. military commanders say their immediate goal is the
capture of General Aidid and his top associates. The United Nations
special envoy to Somalia, Admiral Jonathan Howe, announced a
$25,000 reward for the capture of Aidid.

General Aidid is routinely referred to in the western press as a
"warlord." The Washington Post now calls him the "outlaw warlord."
The attempt to arrest Aidid in his own country by foreign occupying
forces, who were never invited into the country by any Somali
leader or institution, is clearly a violation of international law.

The only apparent reason Aidid has become the focus of the
invaders' military operations is that his faction is the strongest
in Somalia. He opposed foreign intervention and only gave lip
service to the U.S./UN military occupation last December when it
was clear that the mission could not be stopped. Pentagon
strategists thus view Aidid as an impediment to the creation of a
totally subservient puppet government in this strategic country
located in the oil-rich Middle East.

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From: [e-mail] (Achana Francis)
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    Recently, a certain Debaud (?) tried to pose as someone
knowledeable about Ghana, and produced some spurious statistics on AIDS in
Ghana; but when challenged to stated his sources, he baulked in an
extremely loud silence. Well, Ghana was one of the countries which made an
early start to check this disease when it was first noticed in the country
in 1986, and has kept open statistics on its evolution. The West Africa
Magazine of 12-18 July 1993 publishes those statistics as at the end of
last year, and now I reproduce the short article in its entirety, and
without prior permission! (Ghana is about the size of the state of Oregon,
and has a population of 15 million).


               AIDS TOLL
     "The number of people with AIDS was 10,285 at the end of last year,
according to Mr. Ibrahim Napuli, the Information, Education and
Communication Coordinator of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP).
The country started reporting the disease in 1986 when two cases were
recorded.
    He told an AIDS conference in Accra recently that of the figure,
6,741 were women and the rest men. Over 9,000 were between the ages of 15
and 49. Those with the HIV virus (But not the full blown disease) numbered
11,940 during the same period, with 8,505 of them women and 2,564 men, the
coordinator said.
    He told the conference that the Ashanti region topped the list with
3,189 AIDS cases, representing 31 per cent of the total nationwide, and
3,853 HIV positive cases, 28.9 per cent of the overall figure.
    Dr. Mary Grant, member of the Council of State, said the Ministry
of Health was developing a network of diagnostic services; introducing
counselling for those who were HIV positive; and undertaking public
education about safe sex. She said there was a need to focus attention on
women between the ages of 20 and 40 because they were more vulnerable to
the HIV virus since they did not have much say in whether or not their
partners used a condom".


    It is therefore an academically bankrupt philosophy for anyone to
try to villify countries in Africa without facts, just because they feel
that the negative image that already exists will be on their side to
authenticate such nonsense. Incidentally, due to the fact that this
disease was introduced from abroad, the overwhelming majority of cases are
in the urban areas. Studies have been done with samples of participants
from rural areas and it was shown that for now, those areas are the least
affected, although these would be the places where it could easily get out
of control if AIDS becomes endemic there. A family planning programme,
backed by subsidized condoms and other birth control methods has been in
place in Ghana since 1969, and condoms made in America are cheaper in
Ghana. So the  urban populations, which are more open to such methods, may
be better able to control the spread of AIDS.
    Finally, the funny aspect of all this is that, when you arrive in
Ghana from abroad, you are seen as a possible sero-positive person, since
most of the first cases in the late '80's involved people returning from
abroad; but then when you go abroad from there, you meet a similar
situation because you are from Africa and thus suspect.


Francis.


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Description: 1993 AFRICAN CUP_WINNERS' CUP Q-F DRAWS
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                                                                LEGS
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                                First     Second
El Kanemi Worriors (Nigeria)     v Stade Tunisien (Tunisia) 3rd-5th SEP 17-19th
El Merakesh        (Sudan)       v Al Ahly      (Egypt).....3rd-5th SEP 17-19th
Daring Club Motema Pembe (Zaire) v Jomo Cosmos  (S. Africa).3rd-5th SEP 17-19th
Africa Sport       (Ivory Coast) v JS Kabylie   (Algeria). .3rd-5th SEP 17-19th

Oguocha.

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