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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it will introduce new guidelines for non-rigths holders and enforce restrictions on filming and other activities to protect media (TV) rights holders.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports CAF said this on its official website on Saturday concerning the 2023 AFCON scheduled to kick off on January 13 2024 to Feb 11 in Cote d’ Ivoire with 24 nations participating.
CAF disclosed that it has received over 5,000 media accreditation applications for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations. It disclosed that the applications are 90 per cent more than that received for Cameroon in 2021.
The media accreditation closed on Nov. 24 . It said that more than 70 nationalities have applied to cover the Africa’s biggest event.
“The high demand has necessitated that CAF implement quotas for all the countries due to space demands.
“CAF remains committed to ensure that fairness is applied across the board in allocation and implementation of quotas.
“CAF believes in creating access for media and promoting media freedom,” it said.
On the filming restrictions, CAF said priority will be, however, given to the host nation at 30 per cent, participating countries, 35 per, regional (neighbouring) countries, 10 and rest of the world (countries) 25 per cent.
“CAF is currently working closely with all the participating member associations to ensure that there is a fair representation in allocating the quotas of each country,” it said.
It said that priority would also be given to Agencies.