Kenya pulls out of hosting CECAFA cup

By Shafik Ssenoga and agencies

Kenya has pulled out of hosting the Confederation of East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) Senior Challenge Cup. The CECAFA championship that was slated to kick-off in late November is now in balance.

"Kenya have told us that they are not ready to host the championships which was scheduled to kick-off in late November to early December," Cecafa secretary Nicolas Musonye said.

"We are now back to negotiating with Sudan again to see if they can agree to have the event back in Khartoum. Hopefully we should be able to get a conclusive reply by Friday."

He added  that  Kenya, which last hosted the Challenge Cup in 2013 and is preparing to stage the African Nations Championships (Chan) in two years' time, have accepted to take over as hosts of the 2016 Kagame club championships after Tanzania, pulled out of staging the event last August due to their congested league programme.

Uganda are the current CECAFA champions having won the trophy for a record 14th time in Addis Ababa last December.