The 2015 U-23 African Cup of Nations holding in Senegal rather took a different turn as some Nigerian fans were reportedly evicted by the authorities for displaying the Biafran flag.
According to reports, the fans had displayed the flag at the Leopold Sedar Senghor stadium in Dakar, the country’s capital, during the football match between Nigeria and Algeria.
Recall that pro-Biafra protests have intensified in the Eastern part of Nigeria in the last few months.
The Senegalese authorities, however, reportedly took the display of the flags as a “militant act.”
According to widely circulated posts, the Vice President of the Senegalese Football Federation, FSF, Amadou Kane, authoritatively ordered that the flags and all their banners be torn down, and the supporters involved be expelled from the stadium.
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