FIFA Gets Tough Against Racism by Lambert Mbom.
The world’s football governing body, FIFA is holding its 74th annual congress in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday May 17, 2024 and among the many issues to be deliberated upon is a series of proposals to combat racism entitled, “Global Stand against racism in football.”...
Sizzling Summer Soccer UEFA Euro 2024: Savor the Best! By Lambert Mbom
The 2024 UEFA European Football competition is exactly one month away as the 17th edition of the prestigious event is scheduled to take place in Germany from June 14 through July 14, 2024. This is soon after the major European football leagues such as the German...
The Ten “Crimes” of Erik Ten Hag by Lambert Mbom.
At the beginning of the 2023/2024 English Premier League Season, many fans of Manchester United harbored hopes of the return to glory of their beloved team. The Dutchman Erik Ten Hag had finally “hacked” the system and brought the lost talisman that Old Trafford...
CAF Details Prize Money
Abidjan – The Confederation of African Football released detailed amounts of the prize money that teams participating at the ongoing African Cup of Nations in Cote D’Ivoire shall take home. The six teams that failed to qualify for the 16 round of the competition...
Winners, Losers, and Neuters: The Story of the First Games.
Cote D’Ivoire – The first of three games to be played by each of the 24 teams is now in the books and the contours of the competition are beginning to take shape. The 12 games played this far registered six victories and six draws and 27 goals. Two years ago in...
Where are the African Football Players at AFCON 2023 Based?
Cote D’Ivoire – The 24 African teams participating in the TotalEnergies African Cup of Nations currently taking place in Cote D'Ivoire have assembled 625 players from across the world with most of the players coming from Europe. In all, these players are...
CAF increases AFCON Prize money to seven million dollars
The winner of the forthcoming TotalEnergies African Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to take place in Cote d’Ivoire from Jan.13 through Feb.11, 2024 shall rake in $7 million, a 40 percent increase from the previous AFCON held in Cameroon in 2022, according to a recent...
United States Catholic Bishops Approve the petition
Baltimore, MD— At their plenary meeting in Baltimore, the seat of the Catholic Church in America, Catholic Bishops of the United States of America consented unanimously to write a letter to Pope Francis in support of the proposal by their colleagues in England and...
The “Truth” About Bishop Bibi: A Riposte!
Dear and Rev Fr, Thanks very much for this very salacious piece which portrays “nicodemously” albeit a personal vendetta against Bishop Bibi. Evidently you are a priest of Buea diocese, a mole or better still a fly on the Bishop’s wall. Sadly, you have defined...
Is the Apostolic Visitation to Buea A Little Too Late?
https://lambomsvuvuzela.com/is-the-apostolic-visitation-to-buea-a-little-too-late/The two apostolic visitors - priests from Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire arrive Buea diocese in the South West Region at a time that the diocese was getting back its mojo! The timing of this visitation is long overdue! For a little bit of background, Bishop Awa experienced...
International Religious Freedom
US Organizes the Second Ministerial to Advance International Religious Freedom Washington D.C. – Over one thousand religious leaders and civil society delegates are gathering at the U.S. State department for the second Ministerial to advance Religious Freedom from...
African Development Bank Group Holds 2022 Annual Meetings
The 57th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank and the 48th meeting of the African Development Fund (ADF), the bank’s concessional lending window, kicked off in Accra Ghana on Monday May 23. Scheduled to run through Friday May 27, the 2022 meetings are...
The Role of Africa’s Regional Organizations in Conflict Prevention and Resolution
On Tuesday November 23 2010, Brookings institution hosted a conversation between Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda and US State Department’s John Hoover, Director, Office of Regional and Security Affairs, Bureau of African...
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Draws!
Today’s draws shall have the eight groups named horizontally from A to H. Tier one shall be all the teams in Pot 1, Tier two shall be teams in Pot 2, Tier three shall be all the teams in Pot 3 and Tier four shall be the teams in Pot four. Teams have been...
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Which African Teams shall qualify – My Predictions. By Lambert Mbom
#Algeria, #Nigeria, #Senegal, #Morocco and #Tunisia are the five teams that shall today qualify for the five spots reserved for #Africa at the forthcoming 2022 #FIFA World Cup in Qatar. This analysis is based on the results of last Friday’s results and the current...
Which African Soccer Giants Will Qualify for World Cup 2022?
Ten African soccer giants shall compete over the next five days for the five spots reserved to Africa for the FIFA 2022 World Cup jamboree billed for December 2022 in Qatar. Today Friday March 25, 2022 shall witness the following schedules: Egypt vs Senegal Mali vs...
Bishop Bibi Turns 50! Let them say. By Lambert Mbom.
Birthday anniversaries are milestones that set markers on one’s life trajectory. Fifty is such a golden age and a time for great celebrations. While such celebrations seem perfunctory, they carry immense significance. It is a celebration of life, of a journey and of...
Religious Freedom in Africa at The International Religious Freedom Summit July 13 – July 2021.
Washington D.C. -- According to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2021 Report released last April 2021, Eritrea and Nigeria are the two African countries of the ten recommended for designation as “Countries of Particular Concern” while...
Why I am rooting for England against Italy in Euro 2020 Final.
In a few hours, the Euro 2020 will be in the history books when Italy meets with England. And not that it matters, supporting either one or the other the difference shall be made by the soccer wizardry, technical savvy of managers and players and sheer luck. It is not...
Euro 2020: Blacks in the European Nations’ Cup.
The 2020 European Nations' soccer jamboree enters its second phase today with the knock off round of 16. Given Europe’s checkered history with Africa especially with respect to colonialism and racism, it seems fitting to enjoy the beauty of the European competition...