{"id":9022,"date":"2014-08-27T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=9022"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:03:47","slug":"ethiopia-kenya-ghana-vie-for-right-to-host-2017-african-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9022","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, Kenya &amp; Ghana vie for right to host 2017 African Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2276601-177BC347000005DC-317_632x435.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9023 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2276601-177BC347000005DC-317_632x435-300x206.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2276601-177BC347000005DC-317_632x435-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2276601-177BC347000005DC-317_632x435-220x151.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/article-2276601-177BC347000005DC-317_632x435.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BBC &#8211; Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana have announced their interest in bidding to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations following Libya&#8217;s withdrawal as the host nation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/28912470\">Libya pulled out last week<\/a>\u00a0because of ongoing fighting in the country that has delayed plans to build new stadiums for the 16-team tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia, who hosted the tournament in 1962, 1968 and 1976, say they will submit their proposal immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia Football Federation president Junedin Basha told BBC Sport: &#8220;We already have two ready venues, the Addis Ababa and the Bahir Dar stadiums, and the construction of the other venues has also reached to a good level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our government is ready and interested to do everything it can to bring the tournament back to Ethiopia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya said in a statement that they are also considering a joint bid with Tanzania or Uganda or Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>And later on Tuesday, Ghana sports minister wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyarigaM\">his Twitter page:\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;I am happy to announce that Ghana will bid to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Confederation of African Football has set a deadline of 30 September for countries to express their interest in hosting the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on Libya&#8217;s replacement will be made in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana have announced their interest in bidding to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations following Libya&#8217;s withdrawal as the host nation. Libya pulled out last week\u00a0because of ongoing fighting in the country that has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/9022\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1,1597],"tags":[3554,4967,1365,3553,1003,4973,4972,4975],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}