All Africa Games
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The All-Africa Games, sometimes called the African Games or Pan African Games, are a regional multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). The competing nations must all be from the African continent.

The first Games were held in 1965 in Brazzaville, Congo. The International Olympic Committee granted official recognition as a continental multi-sport event, along with the Pan American Games and Asian Games.

History

The table below gives an overview of host cities of the All-Africa Games.

Order	Year	City	Country	Date	Top Medalling Country
1	1965	Brazzaville	Congo-Brazzaville	July 18 - July 25, 1965	United Arab Republic
-	1969	Bamako	Mali	Disrupted by Military Coup
2	1973	Lagos	Nigeria	January 7 - January 18, 1973	Egypt
3	1978	Algiers	Algeria	July 13 - July 28, 1978	Tunisia
4	1987	Nairobi	Kenya	August 1 - August 12, 1987	Egypt
5	1991	Cairo	Egypt	September 20 - October 1, 1991	Egypt
6	1995	Harare	Zimbabwe	September 13 - September 23, 1995	South Africa
7	1999	Johannesburg	South Africa	September 10 - September 19, 1999	South Africa
8	2003	Abuja	Nigeria	October 5 - October 17, 2003	Nigeria
9	2007	Algiers	Algeria	July 11 - July 23, 2007	Egypt
10	2011	Lusaka	Zambia

The host city of the 2015 All-Africa Games is to be decided soon.

All-time medal table

The table below gives an overview of the all-time medal count of the All-Africa Games.

All-Africa Games medal count
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Year of first medal
1	Egypt	431	328	320	1079	1965
2	Nigeria	303	277	256	836	1965
3	South Africa	198	174	137	509	1995
4	Algeria	132	152	189	473	1965
5	Tunisia	123	106	133	362	1965
6	Kenya	90	97	104	291	1965
7	Senegal	40	40	73	153	1965
8	Ghana	26	38	64	128	1965
9	Ethiopia	23	29	34	86	1965
10	Cameroon	20	42	81	143	1965
11	Zimbabwe	18	26	57	101	1987
12	Uganda	17	19	33	69	1965
13	Côte d'Ivoire	17	18	33	68	1965
14	Madagascar	10	15	33	58	1965
15	Morocco	9	12	15	36	1973
16	Angola	9	7	17	33	1987
17	Lesotho	8	3	8	19	1991
18	Mauritius	6	19	27	52	1987
19	Libya	6	8	16	30	1978
20	Namibia	4	10	15	29	1991
21	Tanzania	4	8	10	22	1965
22	Mali	4	5	7	16	1965
23	Zambia	4	4	22	30	1965
24	Gabon	4	4	19	27	1965
25	Botswana	4	4	10	18	1991
26	Mozambique	4	2	1	7	1987
27	Eritrea	3	1	2	6	2007
28	Sudan	3	1	3	7	1973
29	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2	3	6	11	1965
30	Congo-Brazzaville	1	7	15	23	1965
31	Central African Republic	1	2	2	5	1991
32	Guinea	1	2	1	4	1973
	Sierra Leone	1	2	1	4	1991
33	Swaziland	1	0	9	10	1973
34	Chad	1	0	9	10	1965
35	Cape Verde	1	0	2	3	1999
36	Burkina Faso	1	0	1	2	1987
37	Somalia	1	0	0	1	1973
38	Seychelles	0	13	18	31	1987
39	Burkina Faso	0	3	7	10	1965
40	Togo	0	2	10	12	1965
41	Niger	0	2	6	8	1965
42	Benin	0	2	3	5	1973
43	Gambia	0	2	0	2	1973
44	Rwanda	0	2	0	2	1987
45	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	1	1	2	2003
46	Malawi	0	0	2	2	1987
47	Guinea-Bissau	0	0	1	1	1999

Trivia

• After hearing about the Pan-African Games whilst on a business trip to Congo, Soviet-Armenian diplomat Ashot Melik-Shahnazaryan got the idea to create the Pan-Armenian Games.

See also

Africa portal

• Football at the All-Africa Games

External links

• Background from official website
• Medal winners in various events