VAR OFFICIAL CAUGHT FLASHING ‘WHITE SUPREMACY’ GESTURE AT WORLD CUP GAME. (PHOTO).

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 VAR official caught flashing ‘white supremacy’ gesture at World Cup game Fare Network, an organisation established to counter inequality and discrimination in football, has called on FIFA to remove a video assistant referee (VAR) official from the World Cup after he flashed an allegedly white supremacist gesture during a match. The incident happened when Germany faced Curaçao on Sunday. When the pre-game footage of the official broadcast cut to the VAR team, Shaun Evans, one of the officials, was seen making a reversed “okay” sign with his right hand in front of his right leg. Anti-Defamation League, a global anti-bigotry organisation, designated the gesture as a hate symbol since 2019. In a statement, Fare Network, a long-time partner of FIFA to monitor racist and discriminatory behaviour, said “the gesture used clearly resembles an upside-down ‘OK’ hand symbol used as a ‘white power’ symbol in global far-right circles”. “Clearly, this official should have no further role to play...

U.S TO SPEND $550 MILLION ON AFRICAN RAPID RESPOND FORCE.

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) delivers opening remarks to more than 50 fifty leaders gathered for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit Session One on 'Investing in Africa's Future,' at the U.S. State Department in Washington August 6, 2014.    REUTERS/Jim Bourg             According to one of the U.S officials,the United State announce today plans to spend $110 million a year over the next three to five years to help African Nations develop peace keeping forces that can be rapidly deployed to head off militant threats and other crises.President Barack Obama is expected to unveil the program during the third day of a summit of African heads of states in Washington,along with another U.S plan to spend an initial $65 million to bolster security institutions in Ghana,Kenya,Mali,Niger,Nigeria and Tunisia.The United State would partner with Senegal,Ghana,Ethiopia,Rwanda,Tanzania,Uganda to develop rapid response forces.Those forces would be ready to deploy as part of United Nations or African Union missions.One more picture below.                                                                                                                   

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