Ugandan police are investigating the disappearance of five female Eritrean U20 women’s national team footballers, who disappeared from their hotel just hours before the 2020 CECAFA women’s championship. The suspicion: escape from the regime.
Five players of the Eritrean U20 women’s national team disappeared this Tuesday from their hotel in the Ugandan city of Jinja (in the south of the country), where they were supposed to play a regional tournament, and are suspected of having fled. As confirmed in a statement from the Council of East and Central African Football Federations (CECAFA), the absence of the five players was confirmed. “The matter has been reported to the Jinja police and investigations are ongoing”, the text reads. “Czechfa, the Uganda Football Association (FUFA) and the police are doing their best to locate these players,” the statement added.
The Eritrean national team was in Uganda to participate in the CECAFA U20 Women’s Championship, which began on October 30 and which would end on November 9 in the nearby city of Njeru. Incidents of this kind are not new among Eritrean footballers, some of whom try to escape the oppressive regime led by Isaias Afewerki in that small East African state. The last similar case was in 2019.
November 3, 2021 (change November 3, 2021 | 10:23)
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