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The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa and the Association of African Sports Confederation. All of the competing nations are from the African continent.
The 13th African Games, also known as Accra 2023, were hosted by Ghana from 8–23 March 2024. [1] Despite having Accra as the main host city, the games were held in two sub-host cities: [ 2 ] Kumasi and Cape Coast .
An all-time medal table for all African Games from 1965 to 2023 is tabulated below. All-time medal table ... South Africa (RSA) 429: 393: 337 ...
Football at the African Games; Organising body: ANOCA: Founded: 1965; 60 years ago () Region: Africa: Number of teams: 8 (from 1 confederation) Current champions: M: Ghana (2nd title) W: Ghana (2nd title) Most successful team(s) M: Cameroon (4 titles) W: Nigeria (3 titles) Football at the 2023 African Games
The 12th African Games (Arabic: الألعاب الإفريقية الثانية عشرة), also known as Rabat 2019 (Arabic: الرباط 2019), were held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. This was the first time that the African Games were hosted by Morocco following the country's readmission to the African Union in January 2017.
The games were never organized. Four years later, Alexandria, Egypt had almost completed preparations for the African Games of 1929 when the colonial powers stepped in to cancel the games, weeks before they were to begin. The colonizers felt the games might serve to unite Africa, and help them break free from their colonial status.
This event was the fourth to take place in Canada. The games marked another point of South Africa's return to the sporting atmosphere following the apartheid era, and over thirty years since the country last competed in the Games in 1958. A former South African territory Namibia made its Commonwealth Games debut.
This list includes all 72 current CGAs as well as a number of obsolete CGAs, arranged alphabetically. The three-letter country code is also listed for each CGA. Several nations have changed during the Games' history; name changes are explained by footnotes after the nation's name, and other notes are explained by footnotes linked within the table.