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Transatlantic Times: African Edition November, 2004
Ten years after the fall of apartheid, South Africa will become the first African country to host the World Cup, making it the first time in its seventy-four year history, the finals will be won and lost on the African continent. While 2010 seems an eternity away, the host has already began earnest preparations to stage the finals of the most popular sport in the world. This decision by FIFA is important and strategic in many regards as it invariably serves as a litmus test to the continent’s ability to successfully host a World Cup with all its interwoven complexities, intricate modalities and logistical nightmare. Can Africa meet the challenge with relative success, is a question that will be answered in due course. But suffice it to say that the choice of South Africa is most informed as it has the resources and technological wherewithal to host the games... WORLD NEWS The world was taken aback in November last year when three Northern Nigerian states comprising Kano, Kastina, Kaduna stopped the house to house immunization campaign against Polio in their states. The three Northern states Governments, alleged that the polio vaccine had hormones which causes infertility an HIV/AIDS when administered on children. They also alleged that the American government and the Western World were using the Polio vaccine to reduce the population of the Muslim North in Nigeria... |
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