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The Africa Cup of Nations, delayed from 2021, takes place in Cameroon from January 9 to February 6. Here's everything you need to know about AFCON.

The Africa Cup of Nations takes place in the Ivory Coast in January and February 2024, as superstars are on show in what is set to be the best-ever edition of the tournament. [ MORE: Full AFCON ...

Looking to the last eight at 2023 Africa Cup of Nations The quarterfinal stage will take place this Friday & Saturday (February 2/3) and will open with an all-West African quarterfinal, the Super ...

With a Nations Cup in early 2022 and mid-2023, and the 2022 World Cup it means some of Africa's leading footballers could play three major tournaments in the space of 18 months.

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 9, 2022, Section A, Page 27 of the New York edition with the headline: Hoping for Surprise at Africa’s Cup of Nations.

The first Africa Cup of Nations was played in Khartoum, Sudan, in February 1957, a few weeks before Ghana’s independence and on the cusp of a great wave of decolonization.

The next men's Africa Cup of Nations Cup is put back a year to 2022, while the women's tournament is cancelled.

DAKAR, Senegal — On the fourth day of the Africa Cup of Nations, broadcasting from Cameroon to 150 countries this month, the rebels acted on their threat.