{"id":345963,"date":"2011-03-28T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/didier-drogba-calls-for-peace-in-ivory-coast-after-benin-win\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T22:10:00","slug":"didier-drogba-calls-for-peace-in-ivory-coast-after-benin-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/didier-drogba-calls-for-peace-in-ivory-coast-after-benin-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Drogba calls for peace in Ivory Coast after Benin win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Kingsley Kobo<\/h3>\n<h4>28 Mar 2011 23:10:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.789473684211\">\n<div readability=\"19.459459459459\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba at a press conference\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c3291e5264616_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ivory Coast&#8217;s Didier Drogba at a press conference<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"28.685833333333\"><\/p>\n<p>Following his comeback to the Ivory Coast national side, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/497\/didier-drogba\">Didier Drogba<\/a> has urged for his home country to end their war.<\/p>\n<p>After netting a brace that swallowed Benin\u2019s initial lead and ended the clash 2-1 in favour of the Elephants, the Chelsea\u2019s talisman made a solemn appeal to the Ivory Coast&#8217;s warring factions to stop the violence and let peace have a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won for all Ivorians. Stop (the war) now, we want peace, we won for you, it must restore peace in C\u00f4te  d&#8217;Ivoire, we will do anything to it,\u201d Drogba said wearing an under T-shirt on which was marked \u201cFor peace in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ivory Coast was plunged into an unprecedented political crisis after a November 28, 2010 presidential run-off became a subject of violent contestation in which close to 500 people have lost their lives and more than 1 million displaced, according to latest figures released by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide insecurity has perturbed the local football league, continental club fixtures and the 2012 African Cup of Nations as well as the 2012 Olympic qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p><span><span> <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c3291e5264616_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2886\/africa\/2011\/03\/28\/2415517\/didier-drogba-calls-for-peace-in-ivory-coast-after-benin-win\" title=\"Didier Drogba calls for peace in Ivory Coast after Benin win\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didier Drogba calls for peace in Ivory Coast after Benin win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Kingsley Kobo 28 Mar 2011 23:10:00 Ivory Coast&#8217;s Didier Drogba at a press conference Related Links Teams Players Following his comeback to the Ivory Coast national side, Didier Drogba has urged for his home country to end their war. After netting a brace that swallowed Benin\u2019s initial lead and ended the clash 2-1 in favour of the Elephants, the Chelsea\u2019s talisman made a solemn appeal to the Ivory Coast&#8217;s warring factions to stop the violence and let peace have a chance. &#8220;We won for all Ivorians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Didier Drogba calls for peace in Ivory Coast after Benin win - 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\/28\/didier-drogba-calls-for-peace-in-ivory-coast-after-benin-win\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Didier Drogba calls for peace in Ivory Coast after Benin win - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Kingsley Kobo 28 Mar 2011 23:10:00 Ivory Coast&#039;s Didier Drogba at a press conference Related Links Teams Players Following his comeback to the Ivory Coast national side, Didier Drogba has urged for his home country to end their war. 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