{"id":163821,"date":"2026-03-31T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/163821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:30:19","slug":"kenya-uganda-tanzania-secure-hosting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/163821\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Secure Hosting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of African Football has officially awarded the hosting rights for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)\u00a0to a joint bid by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a historic moment for the East African region, which will host the continent\u2019s biggest football tournament for the first time in decades through a collaborative effort.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to circulating claims, there is no verified evidence that Kenya paid $30 million\u00a0to secure the hosting rights. Instead, CAF\u2019s selection was based on the strength of the joint bid, infrastructure plans, and regional collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is expected to boost sports development, infrastructure, tourism, and economic activities\u00a0across the three countries.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have also expressed optimism that the competition will strengthen regional unity and showcase East Africa on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p>   For advert placement, publication of news content, articles, videos or any other news worthy materials on this Website, kindly send mail to <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asabametro.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#1c7d6f7d7e7d7179686e735c7b717d7570327f7371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Confederation of African Football has officially awarded the hosting rights for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[32081,86212,528,483,86213,8586,86214,153,86215],"class_list":{"0":"post-163821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-afcon-2027","9":"tag-afcon-hosts","10":"tag-african-football","11":"tag-caf","12":"tag-kenya-football","13":"tag-sports-africa","14":"tag-tanzania-football","15":"tag-uganda","16":"tag-uganda-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116324743552999221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}