Alex Otto
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City Oilers Take 5th Place at FIBA African Champions Cup

21 Dec 2017, 15:56 1983 Views Kampala, Uganda Sport Analysis

In short
Ugandas City Oilers on Wednesday afternoon stopped Mozambiques Ferroviario Beira to take the fifth position at the FIBA African Champions Cup in Tunisia.

Uganda's City Oilers on Wednesday afternoon stopped Mozambique's  Ferroviario Beira to take the fifth position at the FIBA African Champions Cup in Tunisia.

 
The Oilers stormed to the championship quarter finals when the edged Nigeria's Kano Pillars. There final hopes were however dented by unbeaten Tunisia's US Monastir.
 
However the Oilers on Tuesday stopped Algeria's GSP 96-91 and in a hotly contested game played today stopped Mozambiques Ferroviario Beira 82-70.
 
In the game played at the Rades City Arena, the Oilers took a huge 27-13 lead in the first quarter before  the Mozambique side won the second quarter 29-16. 

The third quarter ended 21-13 in favor of the Oilers. The Oilers led the last quarter with a slim 18-15.
 
Both Oilers guard Robinson Opong Odoch and Centre Darius A Pegus made 23 Points, while Mozambiques Ismail Nurmamade made a game high 28 Points.
 
The loss for Mozambiques side mean they take sixth position.Angola's InterClube takes seventh place while Algeria's GSP took eighth place.
 
A third place game is to be played between Libolo of Angola and US Monastir of Tunisia.
 
Morocco's AS Sale beat ES Rades (Tunisia) to become champions.

  





 
 

 

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Alex Otto
“Journalism that changes lives is my goal,” Alex Otto has said on more than one occasion. That is his career’s guiding principle. Has been since he was a radio journalist in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu in 2009.

Otto passionately believes his journalism should bring to the fore the voices of the voiceless like the shooting victims of Apaa. Otto tries in his journalism to ask tough questions to those in positions of authority.

Based in the Kampala bureau, Otto is especially interested in covering agriculture, politics, education, human rights, crime, environment and business. He has reported intensively on the post-conflict situation in northern Uganda.

A URN staff member since 2014, Otto previously worked with The Observer Newspaper from 2012 to 2013 and later the Institute for War and Peace Reporting IWPR based in Gulu.

He was the URN Gulu bureau chief 2014-2016.