FIFA’s broadcast cameras appeared to avoid showing this moment, likely due to rules around political gestures and protests.
But today, Lumumba covered his mouth and mimed a gun to his head in a powerful protest against the silence surrounding the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
One of the world’s most active crises has displaced thousands, and he used the World Cup stage to make sure people could not look away.
This is what true influence looks like. 🇨🇩👏
Sorry to disturb your Wednesday but 'israel' just bombed a group of children who were playing around their displacement tents.
One Palestinian boy was murdered, others injured.
This is a Western funded genocide of non-jews.
That's all.
How can a country like Nigeria run without a budget? They are lying to Tinubu; Nigeria is sinking."
~ Senator Maidoki, after defecting from APC to ADC.
Gotta change his intensity man, I’m surprised Arteta ain’t done it by now
He so easily has the capabilities to run a game with his skillet but nahh
Let me run ‘Nonchalant’ and ‘comes natural’ gimmick instead
Someone deadass just gotta tell him he isn’t Neymar to his face to snap him into reality 😂
In 1977, two Nigerian secondary school students refused to recite the national pledge, claiming it conflicted with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. They were expelled and barred from admission into other schools in Oyo State.
The government insisted it was mandatory for all schoolchildren to recite the national pledge as part of efforts to foster a sense of responsibility and national unity.
Source: New Nigerian
🚨 Repórter: "Você pretende continuar jogando por mais alguns anos?"
Messi: "Sim, sim... Continuarei por algum um tempo, enquanto eu puder contribuir, me sentir bem fisicamente e ajudar meus companheiros... Eu Continuarei jogando.
Repórter: "Quero dizer, você jogará a Copa do Mundo de 2030?
Messi: "Não sei. A verdade é que não estou pensando nisso agora. Parece um pouco distante... mas, como eu disse, estou vivendo um dia de cada vez e focado no presente"
Ele não negou rapaziada...
Israeli soldiers use young boys for "target practice." As in, Mondays, we shoot the stomach, Tuesdays, the knees, etc.
This was reported last year by the BBC and now corroborated by the United Nations' report.
The rich man raises his children to be leaders, they're taught to question everything and to always stand up for themselves,
The poor man raises his children to be servants,never to question authority figures,and the teachers at school reinforces this by oppressing them daily.
After what can only be described as one hell of a run.
The police had his face. Name. Bolt profile. Car description.
And it was years. Years. Years.
In ONE town.
One small town.
Sometimes we saw tweets about his attacks, days apart from each other.
NPF be ashamed.