CAF strips Kenya of CHAN 2018 hosting rights

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has stripped Kenya of the hosting rights for the 2018 edition of the African Nations Championship (CHAN).

The decision was announced to the media after a meeting of the CAF executive committee in Accra on Saturday.

Some officials of the continental football governing body expressed concerns about Kenya’s current political situation, as their recently annulled presidential elections are set to be rerun late October.

The decision was ultimately upheld as the inspection team sent to the east African nation also reported that only one of the four venues was ready to stage the tournament.

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This is the second time Kenya is losing the right to stage a continental competition after being replaced by South Africa as hosts of the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations.

Meanwhile, the home-based Super Eagles of Nigeria have qualified for the finals, alongside Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia.

Kenya, who are supposed to complete the number, will now be missing, as there have been speculations that either Morocco or South Africa will take their place.

The CHAN tournament will hold from January 11 to February 2.

 

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