CAF Suspends Matches In Ebola Infected West African Countries.
Written By sportsweight.blogspot.com on Wednesday, August 13, 2014 | 12:30 AM
The Confederation of African Football, Caf, has suspended it matches in three West African countries hit by the Ebola virus.
Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia will not host Caf matches until further notice as Teams from the nations infested with Ebola virus will play their home games at neutral venues.
Caf, explains that the body will still maintain its fixtures across the continent except in three countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the Ebola disease has registered a high record of infection
To this end, Caf has asked the concerned Football Federations to move to neutral countries home games for their teams taking part in Caf competitions, for a period stretching to mid September 2014.
The first fixtures to be affected by this measure are the Guinea-Togo clash of September 5 in Group E of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations and Sierra Leone-DR Congo of Group D on September 10.
Officials from Sierra Leone have indicated plans to play their home games in Accra in Ghana.
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