TotalEnergies AFCON 2025: "Morocco is plan A, plan B & plan C" (Patrice Motsepe, CAF)

"Our position is very clear: Morocco is plan A, plan B and plan C. Preparations for the next Africa Cup of Nations (scheduled to take place in Morocco from 21/12/2025 to 18/01/2026) are going extremely well. Morocco remains perfectly capable of hosting the continental competition under the best possible conditions. There is no alternative scenario," declared Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African Football, at the end of CAF's 47^th general assembly held in Kinshasa (DR Congo) on 06/10/2025.

Patrice Motsepe denies rumours (notably from Algeria) suggesting that the Africa Cup of Nations could be relocated because of the demonstrations held since the end of September in more than a dozen Moroccan towns, called by an online collective called "Gen Z 212" ("Generation Z" for people born between the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2010s and "212" in reference to the national telephone code in Morocco).

The participants have denounced, in no particular order, "the lack of prospects, the weakness of the healthcare system and the precariousness of Moroccan…