East Africa is set to host CHAN 2024 with Kenya-Tanzania-Uganda as the co-host. News from Nairobi this week has been all about the country's unprepare
East Africa is set to host CHAN 2024 with Kenya-Tanzania-Uganda as the co-host. News from Nairobi this week has been all about the country’s unpreparedness for the competition to be played between 1-28 February 2024.
The Kenyan government, via the sports minister, has reaffirmed their interest and readiness to co-host the competition alongside Uganda and Tanzania.
“With the benefit of hindsight, we put ourselves under pressure by hosting CHAN,” Kenya’s sports minister, Kipchumba Murkomen, told BBC Sport Africa.
“If we had taken more time to think through it, maybe, perhaps we should not have done so.
“But now that we have committed ourselves, we have decided that we will do everything in the books humanly possible to make sure that we achieve what we need to do”, Kenya’s sports minister, Kipchumba Murkomen added.
Tanzania has a venue (Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium) and Uganda (Nelsen Mandela Stadium National Stadium) in Dar es
Salaam and Kampala respectively.
These two venues have gotten approval from the Confederation of African Football, so it is left to Kenya to get approval from the association.
Kenya has assured fans that they will provide a venue that will meet CAF’s standard for the competition even though things are so difficult, per their sports minister.
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