Uganda, April 28 -- The East African Pamoja Afcon 2027 winning bid seems the lifeline Cecafa - the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations - needed for resuscitation.

Cecafa has been in a stupor induced by several factors including lost allure and Covid since 2019, when it hosted its last event in Uganda.

With June 29 to July 14 the confirmed dates for the return of Africa's oldest football tournament in Zanzibar, Cecafa organisers are hoping to use Afcon 2027 to be hosted in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to rally the region to embrace the tournament's return.

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"The fact that we have not had the tournament for long has not given our teams a chance to play as many games as possible," Andrew Jackson Oryada, the Ceca...