The President of the Confederation of African Athletics, Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, recently stayed in Praia (Cape Verde), accompanied by the CEO Lamine FATY and the Technical Director Aziz Daouda to lay the foundations for an Athletics Development center (AADC) for countries with Portuguese as a working language. This is a step forward in the work of developing African athletics.
President Kalkaba initialed and signed on September 21, 2022, together with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Youth and Sports, the memorandum of understanding which now makes possible the construction of an African Athletics Development Center ( AADC). It is a good prospect that opens up for athletics in the Portuguese-speaking countries of the continent. Budding athletes and those with talent and potentials can thus be detected in good time and benefit from professional and scientific supervision. For years now, African athletics has been able to judge the interest of such centers which exist in several countries on the continent. Recently the CAA initialed and signed the same protocol for the installation of a center in Abidjan. Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mauritius (Mauritius), Nairobi (Kenya), Lomé (Togo), Lusaka (Zambia) and Port Harcourt (Nigeria) have hosted AADC centers for years.
