People who attended the game told the BBC that a group of Kiyovu Sport fans repeatedly chanted, calling Ms Mukansanga "a prostitute". After the game security staff had to intervene to prevent some of them from physically attacking her,” Jules Karangwa of the RFF says. In an open letter, Kiyovu Sport fans President Hemedi Minani condemned the "harassment and insults" against Mrs Mukansanga and apologised to her. Last year in Qatar, Ms Mukasanga was part of the first team of three female referees to ever officiate a male’s world cup. Months earlier she had also become the first female to officiate the men’s Africa Cup of Nations.

Source: Ethiopian News January 24, 2023 08:09 UTC