yaounde, as thousands of football fans struggled to get in. let s speak to our correspondent nick cavell, who s there now. why did this happen, nick? because behind me here, this is one of only about three gates along here that actually was open yesterday evening for the match between cameroon and comoros. there were other gates around the stadium, but these were the only ones open and everybody was trying to get through. people also having to go through covid tests in front of us, creating a bottleneck, it was getting closer to the match between the host to get into that stadium, there was a lot of noise early on. it was only meant to be 80% full and 60% capacity. i was inside during the game and it was a lot fuller than 80% so a lot of people trying to get in here and, unfortunately, that led to the crash that happened here yesterday evening. and in the last few minutes, the head of the confederation of african football has been passed here looking at the scene of the accidents, he h
of 60,000 capacity. i was inside during the game and it was a lot fuller than 80%. yes, a lot of people were trying to get in here and unfortunately that led to the crush that happened here yesterday evening and in the last few minutes the head of the confederation of african football has been passed here looking at the scene of the accident. he s also just an announcement over in another part of town, that there will be a minute s silence before the games and the match that was due to take place here on sunday has now been moved across town to yaounde, to another stadium here in town. a lot older and a lot less new than this one, so that will be happening on sunday. bradford council is to lose control of its children s services, after the death of star hobson, the 16 month old out into the zen 20 after months of neglect, cruelty and injury at the hands of her
just made an announcement in another part of town in yaounde that there will be a minute s silence before the games and that the match that was due to take place here on sunday has now been moved across town to yaounde, to another stadium in town a lot older and a lot less new than this one. so that will be happening on sunday. this one. so that will be happening on sunda . . ~ this one. so that will be happening on sunda . ., ,, , this one. so that will be happening on sunda . ., ,, i. , . a committee of mps investigating racism in cricket have been hearing from representatives from the top of the sport this morning. during the session, the chairman of middlesex county cricket club made comments about diversity which have angered some. our sports correspondent joe wilson was listening. what did he say? this was part of the government has my ongoing attempt to hold cricket to account in the wake of azeem rafiq s revelations and testimony. as part of the professional proceedings, county