•As Sierra Leone gets Yaounde nod

In furtherance to the request of Guinea and Sierra Leone over a home venue, the Con­federation of African Football, CAF has ap­proved a ‘home’ venue for the two countries and will now host their 2015 AFCON match day 3 qualifiers in Casablanca, Morocco and Yaounde, Cameroon because of the Ebola epidemic.

CAF in a statement re­leased yesterday stated that Guinea would play Ghana on October 11 at Stade Mohamed V in Casablanca. Incidentally, Guinea had defeated Togo at the same venue earlier this month in a previous Group E home match.

Sierra Leone on the oth­er hand will face Group D leaders, Cameroonians on October 10 at Stade Ah­madou Ahidjo in Yaounde, the home ground of their opponents. The Leone Stars suffered a similar disadvantage this month – playing a home game against the Demo­cratic Republic of Congo in Lubumbashi.

Nearly 3,000 people died in Guinea, Sierra Le­one and Liberia this year from the deadliest Ebola epidemic, according to the World Health Organisa­tion.

Liberia was eliminated in the preliminary rounds of the Cup of Nations.