According to CAF, the request was based on the fact that Sierra Leone, like Guinea and Liberia cannot host any CAF approved games at home due to the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), even as the two nations are due to meet in Group D of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.
“We have approached the Cameroonian FA to allow us to host their national team in Yaounde and from our discussions so far things are looking good,” Sorie Ibrahim Sesay, head of competitions of the SLFA told BBC Sport.
“So far Cameroon is the only country we have contacted.”
If Cameroon agree, the Indomitable Lions will host Sierra Leone twice in Yaounde, within the space of four days.
They are already set to host the Leone Stars on 15 October.
Moving the match to the Cameroonian city would also mean that Sierra Leone team is once again having to play a designated home match on opposition soil.
Last month, the country was forced to move its home fixture against DR Congo to the Congolese city of Lubumbashi.
Leone Stars lost that match 2-0, following a two-day journey, travelling from Ivory Coast, where they had lost 2-1 four days earlier.
The defeats left Leone Stars bottom of Group D and also cost Johnny McKinstry his job as coach.
He was replaced by ex-Sierra Leone international, Atto Mensah last week, when FIFA’s latest world rankings showed the Leone Stars to have dropped from 50 to 75.
The SLFA had already suspended all football activities before CAF ordered its matches to be relocated.
World Health Organisation on 22 September stated that almost 2,800 people had died in this latest outbreak of Ebola across parts of West Africa. More than 560 of those deaths had been in Sierra Leone.
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