OFFICIAL: CAF refuses to postpone 2015 AFCON; hosts Morocco has eight days to confirm

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have announced they will not postpone next year's AFCON and have given Morocco till Saturday to decide if they would still be willing to stage the tournament.

In a statement posted on their official website Monday, CAF executive committee maintained the 2015 AFCON will go ahead between January 17 and February 8.

“Unanimity was reached (after the CAF executive committee meeting) on keeping the competition on the dates originally agreed, namely from January 17 to February 8, 2015…”, stated CAF while giving several reasons for their position.

CAF stated that they have organised several competitions since the outbreak of Ebola and there has been no health incident in this respect.

They also argued that Morocco's health system will be more than able to cope with the limited human traffic to the country for the 2015 AFCON.

CAF further said a shift of the AFCON will affect their own calendar as well as that of the international calendar.

CAF have therefore requested hosts Morocco to communicate their final position on staging the competition within those dates not later than Saturday after they raised concerns about the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa.

Morocco had proposed the competition be moved till June 2015 or January 2016 by that time the Ebola outbreak would have been fully contained.

CAF executive are expected to take a final decision on the hosting of the competition on November 11 in Cairo, Egypt.

They have already sounded out other countries over the possibility of hosting the biennial competition at short notice.