Uganda granted asylum to 15 Eritrean football players
Tigrai Online Feb. 19, 2013
Uganda has granted asylum to the 15 players from the Eritrea football team and the team doctor who absconded in the country in December during the 2012 Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup.
Uganda has granted asylum to the 15 players from the Eritrea football team and the team doctor who absconded in the country in December during the 2012 Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup.
Apollo David Kazungu, the Commissioner for Refugees in the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda, said on Monday that the Refugee Eligibility Committee had found the group's claims valid and granted them refugee status.
The Eritrean team had been eliminated in the tournament in the early stages after drawing with Zanzibar 0-0, losing 3-2 to Malawi and being beaten 2-0 by Rwanda in their last match on Saturday.
Instead of boarding the next plane out of Uganda, 17 players and officials left their Sky Hotel reportedly to go shopping, but only three returned to Asmara.
"This is very good news if they have finally been sorted by the relevant authorities. But next time teams should come and play football and return to their countries," said Uganda Football Association's vice-president in charge of youth, Patrick Ogwel.
Source: Read More on BBC Sport - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21505915
Background
Back in December 2012 the entire 17 Players of the Eritrean national football team have gone missing in Uganda after the team was eliminated in the group stage of the ongoing Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
Chairman of the local organising committee of the tournament Moses Magogo, who is also a vice-president of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (Fufa) told BBC Sport on Monday that he believes some Eritrean players are missing from the hotel where they were staying.
Seventeen players and one official have disappeared from Sky Hotel, where the team was booked, leaving behind head coach Teklit Negash, two of his assistants, two players and two officials of the Eritrean Football Federation.
In July 2011, 13 Eritrean Football Players Go Missing in Tanzania. In December 2009 The entire Eritrean national football team has gone missing after failing to board a flight home following a match in Kenya. Only the squad's coach and one other official arrived back in Eritrea. In May 2006, four players of the Eritrean football club, Red Sea defected in Nairobi after evading their government escorts.
Advertisements
Sponsored Links
More Articles
Meles Zenawi: Dedicated peace advocate and a brilliant military strategist part II
Ethiopia manufactures first military unmanned aircraft
From Economic Dependency and Stagnation to Democratic Developmental State
Yayu the largest Fertilizer Plant in Ethiopia progress video report
Long live Meles Zeanwi and his party TPLF/EPRDF
Terra Global Energy launches 400 MW Ethiopia Wind Project in Debre Birhan
Our heroes and heroines deserve a war memorial:
He who denies history denies himself: Reading between Abubekr Ahmedfs teaching
Meles Zenawi: Dedicated peace advocate and a brilliant military strategist
Demanding the impossible at gunpoint is terrorism
Meles Zenawi the father of Ethiopian modern military doctrine
Don't We Really Yearn to Hear About an Ethiopian Success Story?
Why Election Boycott Is a Suicidal Idea and a Surer Road to Political Extinction
Ethiopian Deputy Premier Discusses Success of Ethiopia's General Education Quality
A Documentary film of terrorists in the name of religion in Ethiopia
TPLF: The Price of Complete Victory
Ethiopian to Host Major International MRO Conference
Faces of Africa 01/21/2013 Meles Zenawi: The man who gave back
The pursuit of restoring an abdicated Patriarch is quixotic
Ethiopian Diaspora Politics and the People of Tigray
Africans are not comfortable about the way the west perceive China-Africa friendship
Ezana Mining Development Builds $17.8m Gold Plant in Tigrai State, Ethiopia
Travelport and Ethiopian Airlines Renew Partnership Agreement
Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen meets Gordon Brown, UK Parliamentarians
What does it take for Ethiopia to be food Self Sufficient?
The case for the National Team Name: Walia or Black Lions?
Ethiopian to Commence New Flights to Ndola, Zambia
Ethiopia, Marching Forward on a ramshackle economic growth
EPRDF as a custodian of Ethiopian culture and heritages
ESAT TV, stop your hate propaganda against the people of Tigrai
Ethiopian and Qatar Armed Forces Chief of Staffs hold talks
Eritrean regime arrested high government officials in connection to the failed coup
Population Explosion and Population Crash
Some brave Eritrean youth Occupied the Eritrean Embassy in London today