Ivory Coast agrees to delay African Cup hosting to 2023

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast has agreed to host the African Cup of Nations tournament in 2023 instead of 2021 after the head of the continent’s soccer body met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara to broker a deal.
It allows the Confederation of African Football to re-shuffle the next four African Cup hosts so that Cameroon, which was stripped of the right to hold this year’s tournament, can now stage the event in 2021. Ivory Coast will delay its hosting by two y