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Ethiopia has barred Eritrean footballers from playing in East Africa’s premier football tournament this month because of political tensions between the neighbouring nations that fought a bloody war from 1998-2000.
Nicholas Musonye, secretary-general of the Council for East and Central African Football Associations, said that the regional football body “must respect” Ethiopia’s position not to allow the Eritrean team into the country to play at the CECAFA Cup from November 21 to December 6.
Eight South African policemen were jailed on Wednesday for 15 years each for the murder of a Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged behind a police van in a horrific incident caught by mobile phone cameras.
The death of Mido Macia provoked widespread outrage, and threw the spotlight on South Africa’s police force and frequent allegations of its brutality.
The 27-year-old Macia died in police custody in February 2013 after being arrested for parking his car on the wrong side of the road.
Manhandled and handcuffed
Video footage showed Macia being manhandled, handcuffed to the back of a police van, and dragged hundreds of metres in Daveyton, east of Johannesburg. Two hours later he was found dead in his cell in a pool of blood.
“Each of you are sentenced to 15 years imprisonment,” High Court Judge Bert Bam said in the capital, Pretoria.
“The arrest of the deceased and then dragging behind the vehicle was totally unnecessary, uncalled for, and not justified at all.”
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