Sports betting getting popular in Sierra Leone

Jul 08, 2014, 01:13 PM

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With the finals line-up nearing completion at the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, for some football fans in Sierra Leone they would rather the tournament stayed on for much longer. This is because while hundreds of millions of people have been glued to their TV sets watching the matches in Brazil, some followers there have even more at stake. This is because sports betting has seen an explosion in popularity, and for a country whose large youth population are mostly out of work, there are both winners and losers, as the BBC's Umaru Fofana reports from Freetown.