Following the reports of the inspection team of the Confederation of the African Football CAF on the venues to be used for the 2018 CHAN championship, the republic of Kenya has again lost out the opportunity of hosting the championship.
The Ahmad Ahmad led CAF executive disclose this at a media conference after a one-day meeting that only one of the four venues was ready to stage the tournament which will be competed for by locally-based footballers between January 12- February 4 2018.
Inside Sources gathered that a number of CAF officials in Accra Ghana had earlier expressed concern about the present political situation in Kenya, where the recently annulled presidential elections are set to be rerun late October amid tensions.
The tournament which has the likes of Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia will now have Kenya missing in action.
Although there has been speculations that Morocco or South Africa may replace Kenya as hosts as report has it that Kenya lost the right to South Africa in 1996 to host similar tournament.
