Alhassan Bangura free at last
Bangura made his first-team debut aged 17 and went on to play 16 games in the Premier League last season. He feared his life would be in danger in the West African country because of his father's links to a secret society, leading him to flee when he was 15.
"It's not the end of my career if I went back,"
He told a press conference on the 15th of Tuesday January 2008.
"It's the end of my life."
Bangura, 19, was set to be deported back to Sierra Leone in December but has now been granted a work permit. Refugees from Sierra Leone, which is still recovering from a brutal civil war, are not automatically eligible for asylum in Britain, so each case must be individually proved. But Bangura's extraordinary case and support from the football community proved strong enough to convince the hearing.
Kenya Death roll hit 800
Bangura made his first-team debut aged 17 and went on to play 16 games in the Premier League last season. He feared his life would be in danger in the West African country because of his father's links to a secret society, leading him to flee when he was 15.
"It's not the end of my career if I went back,"
He told a press conference on the 15th of Tuesday January 2008.
"It's the end of my life."
Bangura, 19, was set to be deported back to Sierra Leone in December but has now been granted a work permit. Refugees from Sierra Leone, which is still recovering from a brutal civil war, are not automatically eligible for asylum in Britain, so each case must be individually proved. But Bangura's extraordinary case and support from the football community proved strong enough to convince the hearing.
Kenya Death roll hit 800
19 killed in tourist town as gangs go on rampage despite Kofi Annan interfering.
The month-long violence, in which nearly 800 people have died, was sparked by the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, has now changed into a raw ethnic conflict pitting mainly Kalenjins and Luos, who supported the opposition, against Kibaki's Kikuyu community.
Meanwhile: Kenyan MP shot dead as election violence continues David Kimutai was shot dead in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the second MP from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to be killed this week
Now is the time to conquer Mugabe
Zimbabwe general elections to be held on the 29th of March and this is the time to swipe Mr. Mugabe away from his kingdom. A total of 5 000 centres have been established in different wards for the inspection of the voters’ roll according to the registrar general’s office. Meanwhile aggressive former finance minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Simba Makoni, came out with his guns blazing yesterday dismissing reports th
at he had suspended himself from the ruling party, while forcing his new opponent Robert Mugabe to go back to the political drawing board to re-strategise as Zimbabwe’s historic poll reckons next month. “I am genuine, I am Honest, I am Nobody’s tool and agent, I am what I am” Makoni said in a news conference.
Meanwhile: Kenyan MP shot dead as election violence continues David Kimutai was shot dead in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the second MP from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to be killed this week
Now is the time to conquer Mugabe
Zimbabwe general elections to be held on the 29th of March and this is the time to swipe Mr. Mugabe away from his kingdom. A total of 5 000 centres have been established in different wards for the inspection of the voters’ roll according to the registrar general’s office. Meanwhile aggressive former finance minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Simba Makoni, came out with his guns blazing yesterday dismissing reports th
at he had suspended himself from the ruling party, while forcing his new opponent Robert Mugabe to go back to the political drawing board to re-strategise as Zimbabwe’s historic poll reckons next month. “I am genuine, I am Honest, I am Nobody’s tool and agent, I am what I am” Makoni said in a news conference. 
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