Crunch time for the Africa Cup of Nations - With the main stadium unfinished and Covid-19 on the move, Africa’s football tournament has ... let’s call them issues. Still, the hosts insist Afcon will go ahead
The continent’s biggest men’s football tournament, the Africa Cup of Nations, is meant to kick off in Cameroon on 9 January. But the venue for the opening and closing matches, the Paul Biya Stadium in Yaounde, is not ready. And the Oomicron variant of Covid-19 is spreading and causing travel chaos.
Cameroon has invested a lot in the tournament after it was stripped of hosting rights in 2019, when it was deemed not ready. The confederation is also under new leadership, headed by South African businessman Patrice Motsepe.
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