Special Olympics Cameroon in collaboration with Peace One Day, an international charitable organisation promoting the value of peace across the world, will today at the Lycée Leclerc campus in Yaounde organise a gala match to commemorate the international day of peace and to promote peace in Cameroon before, during and after the presidential elections. The match will pit a selection of mentally deficient athletes and their trainers against a selection of the association of albinos, ASMODISA. According to the promoter of the game, Jean Marie Aleokol Mabieme, sports and football in particular, is an important channel to vehicle the virtues of peace as through the practise of the game of football, one acquires the values of fair play and tolerance which are the essential components of peace. More so, mentally deficient athletes

There is no respite for boxing lions who just returned from the African Games in Maputo as they continued training immediately towards the upcoming AIBA Men's World Championship to take place in the capital city of Baku in Azerbaijan. Over 685 boxers aged between 17 and 34 from 127 countries around the world will be taking part in the biennial event in 10 weight categories with hopes of claiming ultimate glory by becoming a world champion. The 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships will have a particular significance as the first major qualifying event for the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Cameroon will be represented by five boxers including two gold medallists at the African games, Joseph Mulema and Thomas Essomba as well as Romaric Ngoula,