2015 Cup of Nations: Equatorial Guinea to host instead of Morocco, from 17/01 to 08/02/2015

Equatorial Guinea will host the Orange Africa Cup of Nations) in 2015 from 17/01 to 08/02/2015, announced CAF (Confederation of African Football) on 14/11/2014.

Morocco, which was to host the 30^th edition of this competition, reiterated, on 08/11/2014, its request for postponement of the tournament to 2016, because of the risks associated with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The executive committee of CAF, who had taken, on 03/11/2014, a "strong and unanimous decision to keep the competition on the dates indicated," confirmed that the 2015 Cup of Nations would not take place in Morocco on 11/11/2014.

• Equatorial Guinea co-hosted the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Gabon.
• Automatically qualified for the CAN 2015 as organisteur country, Equatorial Guinea had been disqualified in favour of Mauritania on 03/07/2014, for fielding a player from Cameroon who had "never submitted a change in association procedure with the FIFA Players' Status Committee."

Four host cities (Malabo, Bata, and Mongomo Ebebiyin), draw for the finals on 03/12/2014 (CAF press release)

• "The Head of State…