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Khartoum: Sudan’s first ever women’s club football league will start next month, a federation official told AFP on Wednesday.
The championship, which will involve 18 clubs separated in three regions, would have seemed unlikely only a year ago when Islamist general Omar al-Bashir was still in power.
“The women’s football league will start in the first week of September,” Mirvat Hussein, the top federation official in charge of women’s football, told AFP. She said a national team was also in the works to represent Sudan in international events.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has no continental cup for women’s club football yet.
The announcement came on the same day as the swearing in of a joint military-civilian Sovereign Council in Sudan.
Many Sudanese have voiced the hope that the three-year transition will see more liberal policies implemented across the country, including measures to advance freedom of speech and women’s rights and promote sport and arts. (AFP)
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