Next June the best of Africa’s athletes will converge on the Algerian capital Algiers for the 22^ndAfrican Championships in Athletics.

The stakes of the competition are quite high, as it will be one of the last opportunities for the continent’s athletes to achieve qualifying standards for the 2020 Olympic Games.

The CAA council meeting as well as the Africa Cross Country Championships, initially scheduled for February 28 and March 1, 2020 in Lomé (Togo), have been postponed to the beginning of April 2020 at the request of the Togolese Government which has just fix the date of his presidential elections on February 22, 2020.