CAF DECIDES 2017 HOST

The Confederation of African Football, CAF, will today decide which among the three countries yearning to host the next edition of the African Cup of Nations slated for January 2017. Algeria, Gabon or Ghana will be chosen as the hosts of the 2017 ACON finals. 

Original hosts Libya, where a civil war has halted football, withdrew last year from staging the tournament. 

The Confederation of African Football's executive committee will hold a vote at its annual congress in Cairo to decide their replacement. All three of the candidates to host the next finals have previously staged the tournament and each has sent ministerial delegations to deliver last-minute presentations to the committee before the vote. 

Gabon co-hosted the 2012 finals with neighbours Equatorial Guinea. Ghana hosted the finals in 1963, 1978 and 2008 and co-hosted in 2000 with Nigeria as late replacements when Zimbabwe was stripped of the right to hold the event. 

Algeria hosted the tournament in 1990 when they won their only continental title. CAF will also conduct the draw for the qualifiers, which will include Morocco and Tunisia, tomorrow.