2023 All-Africa Games : Competition Postponed To 2024

The 13th edition of the All-Africa Games has been postponed to 2024. The games that were due to take place in Ghana from August 4 to 19, 2023 have been moved to March next year because of economic pressures, delays in preparations and acrimony amongst key stakeholders. The African Union (AU), the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) and the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC) announced recently that the quadrennial event will now take place in March 2024. According to the announcement, the competition will remain in Ghana. 
With the new timing, 12 out of the proposed 24 sporting disciplines of the Africa Games will serve as qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics Games in Paris following the approval by the President of the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC), General Ahmed Nasser and the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf. The disciplines are athletics, basketball 3×3, badminton, beach volleyball, cycling and judo, swimming, tennis, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling. 
Ghana has been struggling to prepare the necessary hosting facilities for the event, which will share three host cities in Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast. Constr...