Countries keep pulling out of the women's qualifiers, and Goal investigates factors behind the recurring incidents in Africa
A recent announcement of Equatorial Guinea's withdrawal from the 2018 Fifa U17 Women's World Cup swelled the list of teams to have pulled out to six.
In the beginning, 17 out of 54 African countries entered for the qualifier draws in August 2017, with four bowing out for varying reasons before the preliminary stages.
Libya, Mali, Sierra Leone and Kenya withdrew days to their opening games, while Tunisia and Equatorial Guinea pulled out to hand Djibouti and Morocco respectively the passage to the second round.