Aloysious Kasoma is a Business Journalist @Newvisionwire, worked at @UGIndependent & @RedPepperUG. Writer, Researcher, Content Developer Volunteer @Bravo_shoes
As a World Cup host, the U.S. shouldn't be flippantly barring officials from entering the country to do their jobs.
It's terribly backward.
It's also counterproductive.
Global sports competitions should improve international exchange and relations, not the reverse.
FIFA has revoked the ticket allocation for Iran fans at the team's three World Cup games in the United States, the national football federation said Tuesday. https://t.co/PvSOGhzYPv
ABD, İsviçreli Embolo'ya vize vermedi. İncelemeye alındı, günler sonra takıma katılabildi.
İran Milli Takımı günlerce Ankara'da konsolosluk önünde vize için beklemek zorunda kaldı. ABD sadece maç günleri ülkeye giriş yapma şartıyla verdi. Arka planda çalışan 15 kişiye vize verilmedi.
Irak Milli Takım oyuncusu, ABD'ye gitti, ancak 7 saate yakın sorguda tutuldu. Sonrasında ülkeye girişine izin verildi.
Afrika'da 2025 yılının en iyi hakemi seçilen ve turnuvada görev alacak olan Omar Artan'a vize verilmedi. Somali kendisine diplomatik pasaport verdi ve ABD'ye uçtu, ancak girişine izin verilmedi ve ülkesine gönderildi.
Güney Afrika Milli Takımı kafilenin yarısına vize verilmedi��i için planlanandan çok sonra ABD'ye gidebildi.
Birleşik Krallık vatadaşlarının ESTA sistemine kayıt olmaları halinde 90 gün vizesiz ABD'ye giriş hakları olmasına rağmen İskoç taraftarların vizeleri günler kala iptal edildi.
Biletlerini alan otellerde yerini ayırtan ABD vizeleri reddedildi. Paraları da yandı.
Dört yılda bir yapılan bir turnuvanın başlamadan içine ettiniz beyler! @FIFAWorldCup @FIFAcom
Statement:
"FIFA can confirm that match official Omar Abdulkadir Artan will be unable to train and officiate at the FIFA World Cup 2026 after he was denied entry into the United States. 1/3
I think in future, @FIFAWorldCup is ought look into the objectives of the game first @YekoyadaUG if the game is for everyone, class should be secondary.
🚨JUST IN: The International Sports Press Association has told FIFA that "many" Iranian and African journalists have been denied visas to cover the World Cup in America
If this is true, Tanzania could over take us like how they beat the Covid 'myths' and slid into the middle income status country as the region watches..
🚨 THE DEATH OF THE DOLLAR IN EAST AFRICA? 🇹🇿 💵
If you think dedollarization is just a theory, think again. Tanzania just officially locked the U.S. Dollar out of its domestic economy.
As detailed in the legal breakdowns the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has completely banned the use of USD and other foreign currencies for local transactions. The one-year grace period for existing contracts officially ended this month (June 2026).
Here is what is now strictly ILLEGAL inside Tanzania:
❌ No USD Pricing: You cannot quote, display, or advertise prices in USD or EUR. Everything must be in Tanzanian Shillings (TZS).
❌ No Foreign Cash for Local Deals: Accepting or forcing payments in foreign currency for local goods/services is a criminal offense.
❌ No Rejecting Shillings: Refusing to accept the local currency is officially a punishable crime.
Why does this matter:
This isn't a temporary rule—it is fully codified under Government Notice No. 198. The government is aggressively moving to protect and strengthen the Tanzanian Shilling (TZS) by forcing every single local business, hotel, and supplier to drop the greenback.
Is this the blueprint for the rest of the continent? 👇🏿
🚨 Uganda Premier League champions Vipers SC and their Belgian head coach Ivan Jacky Minnaert have mutually agreed to part ways.
#NBSportThisMorning#NBSportUpdates
@KuddizaAmos@KamieGold@BalaamBarugahar Hi Jimmie, thanks for the initiative, kindly take this advise with a grain of salt. I am surprised ( according to Balaam's comment) that you came up with a great idea without you meeting the minister.
Remember when US President @BillClinton, his wife @HillaryClinton and daughter @ChelseaClinton
Clinton visited Uganda in March 1998 and travelled to Wanyange, Jinja with President @KagutaMuseveni and maama @JanetMuseveni
to see the impact @FINCA, an American founded financial inclusion NGO was doing?
Remember the photos from that visit, where Clinton was carrying a few- days- old baby, that would later be named after him?
Yes, that baby, now a young man, is the one I met today, in this photo.
He is called Kaligana Bill Clinton Muwanguzi.
His mother, Betty Namugosa, was the lady Bill Clinton found making pancakes- Kabalagala- burahanda-- in Wanyange, carried her baby and bequeathed her the name.
The young man went on to go to school, completed O level at Holly Cross Secondary School in Jinja, and A level at London College of St Lawrence.
Initially, his mother would occasionally receive phone calls from the Clintons and even received tuition fees support from them via Western Union, but all of a sudden, they lost connection.
The young man, whose passion is to become a football coach, seeks and wishes to reconnect with his friend and hopes this message will reach them @ClintonFdn.
He can be reached on call and WhatsApp via
+256781861715. #KeepingHopeAlive.