In a letter from the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Real Balompedica winger Alhassan Koroma popularly known as Twin has been declared unfit to participate in the African Cup of Nations 2021 and has been replaced with FC Crotone player Augustus Kargbo.
After 26 years of absence, Sierra Leone returns to the African Cup of Nations competition for the first time since their second participation in South Africa 1996. Today, the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone depart for Cameroon to take part in the African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) tournament.
Leone Stars Coach, John Keister has released the final 28 man squad that will represent Sierra Leone in the 2022 CAF African Cup of Nations
In a bid to boost the transportation system in Senegal, the Senegalese government has today commissioned a new commuter railway line that will transport over 100,000 commuters/passengers per day.
Our resilience
Shone through in the Hut tax war
Defeating oppression
Our valance
Came out conquering our conqueror
Resistance
is the current streaming in our Rivers
Our tribes
enchanted by ancestral mystical powers
The Lion’s Salvation
– A poem by Ella Llewelyn Jones
We would like to start by thanking LAJ’s fans and sympathizers for standing by him during these difficult times in his life. Your continuous support and show of solidarity is a clear manifestation of what he means to all of us, a human being that is devoid of perfection.
Waves of migrants
Washed up by the tide
Of poverty
Swimming in from far and wide
To catch the debris falling from the landslide
Of prosperity.
Of Africa’s nearly 420 million youth aged 15-35, one-third are unemployed and discouraged, another third are vulnerably employed, and only one in six is in wage employment. Youth face roughly doubles the unemployment rate of adults, with significant variation by country.
“A person who intentionally commits an act of sexual penetration on another person without the consent of that other person commits the offense of rape and is liable on conviction to a term of imprisonment not less than 15 years to life imprisonment.”
