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Enyimba coach Fatai Osho has thrown down the gauntlet to the 15 other CAF Confederation Cup contenders by declaring that his Nigerian club can lift the trophy this season.
“We have a good chance of winning this competition,” he said ahead of matchday 1 on Wednesday when the last Nigerian team to win an African club competition host Libyan outfit Al Ahly Benghazi.
“Enyimba are title contenders and not just participants. We have what it takes to go all the way and become the first Nigerian winners of the Confederation Cup.”
Here, AFP Sport sets the scene ahead of the first eight group matches in the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League.
Enyimba throw down the gauntlet to Orlando Pirates
Enyimba coach Fatai Osho has thrown down the gauntlet to the 15 other
CAF Confederation Cup contenders by declaring that his Nigerian club can lift the trophy this season.
“We have a good chance of winning this competition,” he said ahead of match day 1 on Wednesday when the last Nigerian team to win an African club competition host Libyan outfit Al Ahly Benghazi.
“Enyimba are title contenders and not just participants. We have what it takes to go all the way and become the first Nigerian winners of the Confederation Cup.”
A look ahead at the first eight group matches in the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League.
Some 2,000 Algerians, mostly students, rallied against the government Tuesday in defiance of lockdown measures, as their two-year-old pro-democracy protest movement resurges. The rallies were only suspended in March last year as the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Algeria anti-govt protesters hit streets after year-long hiatus
Friday February 26 2021
Summary
Algeria s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune elected in December 2019 on a very low turnout in a poll boycotted by the protest movement has made several bids to head off renewed rallies.
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Thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of Algeria s capital on Friday as the Hirak pro-democracy movement gathers renewed momentum after a year-long hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite a ban on gatherings over Covid-19, crowds rallied in several neighbourhoods of Algiers in the early afternoon and marched toward the city centre, AFP journalists said.
Thousands of people demonstrated in central Algiers on Friday for a second time this week, confirming the resumption of street protests that had stopped for nearly a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Protesters were met by security forces who used truncheons and fired tear gas when a crowd forced its way through a police barrier to reach the Grand Post Office, the main Algiers rallying point for the anti-government Hirak movement, footage posted on the Interlignes news site showed.
Weekly street protests that began in February 2019 prompted the army to force former veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power in the biggest shock to Algeria’s political system in decades, stopping only for a COVID-19 lockdown in March last year.