It was a wrong and shameful decision,” Jonathan
Heizani of Zambia’s BuzzSports told Africa Sports
Monthly
Morocco’s interior minister Mohamed Hassad has
strongly denied suggestions that they were motivated
by racism to decline the tournament, but his words have
been betrayed by some realities on the ground.
The beautiful and serene coast and
skyline of Morocco
Morocco has some of the best health facilities in Africa.
Virology experts say the country would have been able
to handle the health situation if they had accepted to
host the Afcon.
In juxtaposition, Equatorial Guinea — who stepped up
to save CAF and stop the tournament from being
moved to Qatar, which had proposed to host the event
if no African country was willing to — has fewer
standard health facilities but promised to handle the
situation, thanks to 50 Colombia doctors imported to
assist local hands.
Cuban Doctors arriving in Sierra
Leone at the height of the Ebola
Virus outbreak epidemic:
Cuban Doctors and NGO’s such as
Med Sans Frontier are among a
number of professional medical
personnel who came to the rescue of
the countries hardest hit by the Ebola
epidemic namely; Sierra Leone/Liberia
and Guinea.
The outbreak was a source of major
controversy in the sports arena which
caused host nation Morocco to pull
out from hosting the AFCON out of
fear that the virus will spread …
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