Sierra Leone soccer head acquitted on corruption charges

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The head of the Sierra Leone soccer federation has been acquitted on corruption charges, opening the way for FIFA to lift an international ban on the West African country.
Sierra Leone soccer association president Isha Johansen and secretary general Chris Kamara were acquitted because of a lack of evidence nearly two years after first being charged.
They had been accused by the government’s anti-corruption commission of misappropriation of money and abus