The Confederation of African Football (CAF) are planning to increase the number of participating teams at the Africa Cup of Nations from 16 to 24.

According to an internal source at the CAF, the football governing body will decide on the plan at a two-day African Football Symposium in Rabat, Morocco that started today.

There is also a proposal for the competition would be shifted from January to summer in the radical changes that the new leadership of the Confederation of African Football wants which is explained by the growing number of African players stalking the AFCON, currently played between January and February.

The symposium, which will be followed by a CAF Extra-Ordinary General Assembly on Friday, has been put together to ferment robust new ideas and ideals for the transformation of the African game, and serve as a sort of game –changer that will drive the vision of the new CAF leadership that swept into office four months ago.

CAF President Ahmad and the President of the Federation Royale Marocaine de Football, Fouzi Lekjaa are chief hosts of the symposium taking place at the International Conference Centre, Mohammed VI, Skhirat.

FKF President Nick Mwenda and top African Football Journalist Collins Okinyo are part of Kenyan participants in Morocco.

Proponents are hinging their position on a number of positives,including the fact that a 24 –team AFCON finals will mean more money for CAF, more money for the African FAs, involvement of more nations and therefore more fans in the Cup finals, involvement of more stakeholders of the African game and its capacity to propel the development of infrastructure around the African continent as co-hosting of the finals will ultimately be encouraged.