Guinea agrees to organize the 2025 edition of the Africa Cup

Guinea has agreed to host the Africa Cup of Nations for 2025 instead of 2023, said the president of the Malagasy continental federation, Ahmed Ahmed.

"We have always said that African football can not develop without close cooperation with the heads of state," Ahmed said after meeting with the Guinean president, with Guinea's agreement on transfer of the Africa Cup of Nations to 2025.

In 2014, the African Union selected the three countries organizing the next three editions of the Africa Cup of Nations, which would be held respectively in Cameroon in 2019, Côte d'Ivoire 2021 and Guinea. 2023. But after the withdrawal of the organization of the 2019 version of Cameroon, the CAF decided the last to organize the 2021 version, to be held copy 2023 in Ivory Coast, putting Guinea on the list d & # 39; waiting.

The Continental Union is expected to announce Wednesday the name of the host country of the 2019 version instead of Cameroon, with limited competition to Egypt and South Africa.