Commonwealth Games gaffe: England listed as part of Africa
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sometimes you make mistakes and we cop it and we spoke to england1 england have been listed as an african nation with capital in banjul in the official programme for the commonwealth games opening ceremony leaving the local organisers red-faced1 it has englands population listed at just over two million and their first commonwealth games appearance in 19701 banjul is the capital of west african nation the gambia which was a late entry to the gold coast games1 organising committee boss mark peters said the gambias participation which was confirmed last month had led to the printing gaffe1 he however said both england and the gambia have taken it in good humour while england has also declined the offer of a complete re-print1 we found out about it maybe 10 days ago peters told reporters at a media briefing ahead of the opening ceremony starting 7 p.m. local time 0900 gmt1 we went and spoke to england and said that congratulations the commonwealths changing and it has since brexit. and part of you is now part of africa1 the a10 5.5 programme is being sold at newsagents and merchandise tents around the balmy queensland resort1 we are actually doing a special re-print of 500 to give to the english and to the cgf to make sure that in terms of the records thats done correctly1 we looked at putting stickers into the programmes and all that. but i guess in another minor ticketing issue we say theyre going to be so valuable after the games because of that mistake1 ghana womens hockey captain nafisatu umaru humbly welcomed england as an african nation prompting a laugh from reporters at the media briefing1 england has made a big impact for us and england is part of our success story she said1 the programme error follows a printing mistake revealed in february that had the wrong day listed for the opening ceremony on some 14000 tickets sold for the event1 the official ticket seller was also criticised in the same month after getting session times wrong on hundreds of tickets for a number of the games sporting events1 england topped the medals table at the 2014 commonwealth games in glasgow1 the quadrennial games feature mainly nations and territories from the former british empire.reutersnan1