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FIFA Suspends Sierra Leone From Football Activities

FIFA Suspends Sierra Leone From Football Activities

FIFA Suspends Sierra Leone From Football Activities

FIFA Suspends Sierra Leone From Football Activities

FIFA has suspended the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) with immediate effect, due to government interference in soccer affairs, the sport’s world governing body said on Friday.

FIFA’s decision came after it wrote to the African country’s sports minister expressing “grave concern” about…

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Sierra Leone government to compensate U20 women after World Cup withdrawal

Sierra Leone government to compensate U20 women after World Cup withdrawal #AbdulRahmanSwarray #ahmedkhanou

Sierra Leone women’s under 20 team

Sierra Leone’s sports minister Ahmed Khanou says government will compensate the country’s women’s under-20 team after withdrawing from World Cup qualifying.

Khanou explained the Sierra Leone Football Association had not informed government about the team’s participation in adequate time for them to find the funds.

The news came just days after the country was…

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Sierra Leone FA president in court over corruption charges

Sierra Leone FA president in court over corruption charges #CAF #christopherkamara #FIFA #IshaJohansen #SierraLeone

Isha Johansen

Confederation of African Football executive committee member Isha Johansen has been charged with 10 counts of corruption and abuse of office in her home country of Sierra Leone on Monday.  Johansen, the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association, however pleaded not guilty to the charges, which relate to her work at the association.

She appeared in court with the secretary…

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Sierra Leone Football Association issues life-time bans for 19 bans

Sierra Leone Football Association issues life-time bans for 19 bans #FIFA #IshaJohansen #SierraLeone

Isha Johansen, president of Sierra Leone Football Association

The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) has banned 19 officials for life.  The sanctions are for breaching SLFA and Fifa statutes concerning taking football related cases to civil courts.

The group went to court last month to seek an injunction to stop the current executive running the affairs of SLFA.

In July Fifa indefinitely…

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Sierra Leone FA president Isha Johansen detained

Sierra Leone FA president Isha Johansen detained

The President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Isha Johansen and two others have been detained over corruption allegations.

The country’s Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) picked the trio up after an FA Cup match on Wednesday.

The head of the ACC Ade Macauley said the arrests were due to “discrepancies in the financial statement of the SLFA relating to donor funds.”

The trio denied…

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As Africans we need to be more supportive of each other in times of need. We all like to think that Africans unite but sometimes we fall short of that

Sierra Leone’s Isha Johansen blazes trail amid tragedy and infighting