An explosion tore through a Mogadishu stadium where Ali Mohamed Gedi, the interim prime minister, was giving a speech, killing at least 15 people and injuring about 40 more, officials said.
On Saturday, Mr. Rajoelina was sworn in as the interim president at Mahamasina, the big stadium where the Ravalomanana partisans once held sway, but also the place where the kings and queens of Madagascar once were crowned.
On Feb. 15, a team composed of British troops stationed in Afghanistan will play an Afghan team, which will be selected by the country's interim government, in Kabul's national stadium.
In the interim the area's Havelange Olympic Stadium is home to the track and field events, while the Olympic volleyball, water polo and archery are also being staged nearby.
January 2003: Lord Rodgers writes to prime minister Tony Blair, suggesting a stadium built for football with interim use for athletics and funded by joint tenancy between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham.
Koppel re-adopted the National Hockey Stadium as his preferred interim destination, announcing a plan to convert the stadium for football and play there from the start of the 2003 04 season.
Addison, who was signed and made captain by Groves, thinks there is plenty of experience at the Goldsands Stadium to help run the club in the interim.
But when interim President Michel Temer utters those words at the historic Maracanã Stadium on Friday night, the international audience may well wonder: Who is that guy?
"We are warning residents not to approach the stadium as it might be unsafe," the Arena's interim executive manager Vadyn Gunko explained.
"Because it costs us so much to put on the games, this is not going to be much of a loss for us," said Deena McClain, interim director of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority, the public entity that owns the Raiders' home stadium.
