Female genital mutilation A 10-year-old girl has died in Sierra Leone, after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) during an initiation into a secret women’s society, Police said.Her death has renewed calls for the practice to be banned, Reuters reports. Authorities have arrested the woman in charge of initiations as investigations continue, said
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AFCON: CAF disqualifies Sierra Leone
CAF logo Sierra Leone have been disqualified from the 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifying competition, the Confederation of African Football said on Monday.Football’s world governing body FIFA had suspended the Sierra Leone Football Association in October due to “government interference”. CAF’s decision means Kenya and Ghana are assured of first and
Sierra Leone disqualified from 2019 AFCON qualifiers
NAN Sierra Leone has been disqualified from the 2019 African Nations Cup (AFCON) qualifiers, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said on its website on Monday. The continental football governing body said its Executive Committee, at its meeting on Friday in Accra, took the decision after reviewing the case of Sierra Leone in the qualifiers. […]
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Teen killed as violence hits Sierra Leone bye-election
Violent clashes erupted during a local bye-election in Sierra Leone leaving a teenager dead and prompting the cancellation of the ballot, police and election officials said on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday at a polling station in a school in the northern Kambia district, where a ballot box was destroyed, sparking an altercation between […] …
Sierra Leone face FIFA ban after anti-graft officials raid FA offices
Sierra Leone face the prospect of a ban from international competition by FIFA after the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) followed through on a threat to raid the offices of its football association on Tuesday.
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Rocky start for Sierra Leone’s free school programme
Some two million children in Sierra Leone went back to school on Monday in a key test of the country’s landmark free education programme for primary and high school students. It was a key election pledge of President Julius Maada Bio, who took office in early April. Bio has said he will donate three months […] …