Next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon has been postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Confederation of African Football announced Tuesday in a video conference.
CAF president Ahmad Ahmad said African football’s governing body took the decision as “health was the main priority”.
African countries have suffered to varying degrees from the pandemic with South Africa the hardest hit among those south of the Sahara, recording more than 144,000 cases, while Egypt has suffered the worst in North Africa with over 66,000 infections.
“The peak of the pandemic has not been reached yet,” Ahmad added.
The CAF Champions League will round up its matches in September while the Confederation Cup will wrap up towards the end of this year with a…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
