{"id":188688,"date":"2025-01-15T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-poor-infrastructure-in-host-nations-sees-caf-postponing-2024-chan-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T15:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:55:42","slug":"east-africa-poor-infrastructure-in-host-nations-sees-caf-postponing-2024-chan-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/east-africa-poor-infrastructure-in-host-nations-sees-caf-postponing-2024-chan-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Poor Infrastructure in Host Nations Sees CAF Postponing 2024 CHAN Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) has postponed the 2024 Total Energies CAF African Nations Championships (CHAN) tournament to August due to poor infrastructure in the three co-hosting nations &#8211; Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Initially, the 19-team tournament was supposed to be played from the 1st to 28th of February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">However, an assessment by the CAF team of inspectors in the respective three nations revealed that they are not ready to host the event due to poor infrastructure, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501150331.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) has postponed the 2024 Total Energies CAF African Nations Championships (CHAN) tournament to August due to poor infrastructure in the three co-hosting nations &#8211; Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Initially, the 19-team tournament was supposed to be played from the 1st to 28th of February. However, an assessment by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,3742,11500,6719,6937,9864,430,4301,257,8943,49015,10159,254,6966],"class_list":["post-188688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-chan","tag-east","tag-host","tag-infrastructure","tag-kenya-news","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-poor","tag-postponing","tag-sees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tournament"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}