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Winners and losers at the World Cup
Our friend Chema Caballero, who has worked for many years in Sierra Leone as a missionary, has just published this piece (in Vida Nueva, Spain’s leading religious magazine) about the outcome of the recently finished World Cup.
For a whole month we all had Africa on our TV screens. The media did not give us another alternative. The Soccer... AMPLIAR
Madrid hosts Mandela Day on Sunday July 18
Madrid is hosting this year the celebrations to mark the International Mandela Day. The main event shall take place at Parque de El Retiro next Sunday, July 18, when Mandela shall turn 92. As a symbolic action, there will be a march of 6.7 kilometers as an homage to the 67 years that Nelson Mandela devoted to his struggle for human rights.... AMPLIAR
The world's best team
Congratulations to Spain soccer team. In Spain we have the world’s best footballers, as well as many other extraordinary personalities who excel in sport. Theirs is the victory of team spirit over checkbook sport, the triumph of humility over arrogance. When the sounds of joy in our streets still resound in our ears after yesterdays’... AMPLIAR
Balls bounce at night in Sahara desert
Our staff Antolín Pulido has just returned from the Sahrawi settlements in Tinduf (Algeria) for a two-month break. He writes to us about our sport project and how people manage to survive under extreme heat.
“After some few siroccos (sand storms) here comes the HEAT, tough and merciless. Little by little, in the Sahrawi settlements people... AMPLIAR
It is great getting on so well. Experiences of Connecting Africa trip
Had you not come for the World Cup, what other reason would you have for coming to South Africa?” During the last two weeks a Spanish newspaper asked this question to almost all players from Spain’s national team. “I would come on safari, for a game ride in the national parks”, was the answer of all of them. Nothing strange... AMPLIAR
Spain youth stay with South Africa township youngsters during World Cup
After a careful preparation of many months by Red Deporte, our dream became true, at last. Since June 20 twelve boys and girls from different Spanish schools who took part in a competition known as Conectando Africa are in South Africa. There they live together with some youngsters who hail from some of Johannesburg's poorest townships. For the... AMPLIAR
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Watching the world cup from a Uganda village
Six African teams take part in the first soccer world cup ever to take place in African soil. Throughout the continent people feel proud of hosting this event and try their best to follow it, although often it may not so easy. In Kitgum, a small town in Northern Uganda, there is only one place where people can watch the matches: the hotel Boma.... AMPLIAR
Solidarity thoughts and the hope of a South Africa trip
In past centuries, the 'civilized' societies have exploited the resources in African countries, focusing only on how they could benefit and holding the indigenous people as slaves, with no regard for their well-being and no willingness to help them to advance.” Julia Herráiz, a student of a high school in Cuenca and selected as one of 12... AMPLIAR
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