{"id":328923,"date":"2011-03-22T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/22\/gabon-president-confident-on-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T10:25:18","slug":"gabon-president-confident-on-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/gabon-president-confident-on-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon President confident on 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bdc40911mba203_gtty.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Ondimba insists Gabon will be ready to host the Nations Cup<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba insists that his country will be ready to co-host the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His comments come despite concerns that preparations are falling behind. <\/p>\n<p>Bongo said some plans are moving forward at a fast pace but &#8220;in others were being very slow&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>He added that he could understand why people in Gabon were worried that things would not be ready for the kick-off on 21 January next year. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be ready on time,&#8221; he said in an interview during a visit to London. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I go back next week I will be touring all the different facilities. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will put pressure on everybody to make sure we are ready on time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important event, the Gabonese people want it and I have no choice but to make sure that the African Cup of <\/p>\n<p>Nations will be played in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Gabon are due to co-host the tournament with Equatorial Guinea. <\/p>\n<p>The qualifying campaign for the finals continues this weekend with teams battling for the 14 places alongside the co-hosts.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bdc40911mba203_gtty.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9432227.stm\" title=\"Gabon President confident on 2012\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabon President confident on 2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> President Ondimba insists Gabon will be ready to host the Nations Cup Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba insists that his country will be ready to co-host the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. His comments come despite concerns that preparations are falling behind. Bongo said some plans are moving forward at a fast pace but &#8220;in others were being very slow&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gabon President confident on 2012 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/22\/gabon-president-confident-on-2012\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gabon President confident on 2012 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Ondimba insists Gabon will be ready to host the Nations Cup Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba insists that his country will be ready to co-host the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. 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