Morocco emerge as new host of CHAN

The Confederation of African Football, CAF have granted the hosting
right of the 2018 African Nations Championship to Morocco.

The decision to grant the North Africans the right was taken at the
football body's executive council meeting held this weekend in Lagos.

The tournament which is set to hold between 12 January to 4 February
2018 was initially scheduled to take place in Kenya. But the East
Africans were stripped of the hosting rights having they failed to
meet the deadline for upgrade of facilities.

Besides Morocco, Ethiopia and Equatorial Guinea had put in bids to
host the tournament.

The tournament would serve as an opportunity for Morocco to host a
senior tier CAF event for players based in their home leagues, after
they withdrew from hosting the 2015 African Cup of Nations following
fears over the Ebola virus.

With Morocco now the new host, Egypt serves as the new entrant into
the competition as they take up the place of the host having
previously lost to them in the qualifiers for the tournament.