Togo's national football team is reported to have decided to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola, despite the country's government calling them home following a deadly attack on the team bus. Two of Togo's players said on Sunday that the team had held a meeting a which it had been decided they would stay to pay tribute to the assistant coach, team spokesman and a bus driver who were killed in the shooting. "The entire delegation just met and, after all, we'll be on the pitch Monday to play against Ghana," Alaixys Romao, a Togo midfielder, was quoted as telling France's L'Equipe newspaper. "Our government doesn't necessarily agree with us but we are determined to play in this competition. The decision was taken unanimously." A Togolese government minister said on Saturday that the team would return home because of the "dramatic situation" in Angola's Cabinda province, where a low-level separatist conflict has been ongoing for three decades.
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