Egypt will host the 2019 Africa
Cup of Nations, the Confederation of African Football (Caf) has announced.
Egypt beat South Africa, the only
other nation to bid, by 16 votes to one with one abstention at a Caf executive
committee vote in Senegal.
Original host nation Cameroon was
stripped of staging duties in November because of slow preparations.
Egypt, has just six months to
prepare for the expanded 24-team finals, which kick off in June. It will be the
fifth time Egypt has hosted the tournament, the most recent was in 2006.
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