[Published: Tuesday December 15 2009]
S Leone woman barred from becoming chief
Freetown, 15 Dec-(ANA)-Members of a Sierra Leone traditional group have besieged a woman's house and stopped her from going home after she launched a legal bid to become a chief.
Elizabeth Simbiwa Sogbo-Tortu was barred from an election to the chiefdom because she was a woman.
She lost an initial appeal against the ban - a ruling condemned by women's rights groups who are vowing to take her case to the Supreme Court. (ANA)
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