{"id":80257,"date":"2022-01-08T01:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T23:30:06","slug":"african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union of Broadcasting (AUB) Fan Zone kicks off with spectacular opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrap\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The 33rd Africa Cup of Nations Total Energies AFCON 2021 will kick off on Sunday, 9 January, 2022 at the Olembe Stadium, Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As the event is fast approaching, excitement is getting into full gear and stakeholders are multiplying initiatives to make this edition a sparkling success.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, 6 January 2022, the African Union of Broadcasting launched the opening of its FAN ZONE, in the presence of important personalities and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>During the solemn ceremony, the AUB CEO, Mr Gr\u00e9goire Ndjaka recalled the importance of sports in peacebuilding and resilience in the society.<\/p>\n<p>Being one of the most popular sports in the world, football has a positive impact on hardworking youths with stable incomes. He therefore encouraged broadcasters to promote sports in general and football in particular as a sign of social cohesion and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ndjaka presented the game as a discipline for the masses, not only the elite.<\/p>\n<p>The AUB Fan Zone is based in Messamendongo, a suburb of Cameroon&#8217;s capital, Yaound\u00e9. It is access free and remains open from the 6 January to 06 February, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Fan zone, AUB has installed a temporary Headquarters comprising an AFCON Monitoring Unit and a Production Center.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of African Union of Broadcasting (AUB).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/african-union-of-broadcasting.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/african-union-of-broadcasting-aub-fan-zone-kicks-off-with-spectacular-opening-ceremony?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 33rd Africa Cup of Nations Total Energies AFCON 2021 will kick off on Sunday, 9 January, 2022 at the Olembe Stadium, Yaound\u00e9. As the event is fast approaching, excitement is getting into full gear and stakeholders are multiplying initiatives to make this edition a sparkling success. Thursday, 6 January 2022, the African Union of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4380,14135,12896,377,6358,15127,7023,257,11416,254,17679,6156,7073],"class_list":["post-80257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-aub","tag-broadcasting","tag-cameroon-news","tag-ceremony","tag-fan","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spectacular","tag-union","tag-zone"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/uploads\/socialshare.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}