Didier Drogba and his dressing-room intervention in Ivory Coast’s civil war

Didier Drogba leaves the presidential palace in October 2005 after a ceremony to celebrate World Cup qualification
“‘The one country in Africa with so many riches must not descend into war. Please lay down your weapons and hold elections. We want to have fun, so stop firing your guns.’ This is not a speech from a political rally. Those words were uttered on television from a cramped dressing room inside a football stadium in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum after one of the biggest sporting achievements in the Ivory Coast’s history.