Luanda – The Kilamba pavilion, hotels and hospitals will be the main buildings to be inspected, starting Monday in Luanda by Aissa Sy, secretary general of the African Handball Confederation (CAHB).
The continental sports official, who has been in the country since Friday, will work until Monday to confirm what condition Angola has to host the women’s pre-Olympic tournament, from 10 to 12 September, to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games to take place in Paris.
On her arrival in Angola, CAHB representative visited the Angolan Handball Federation (FAAND), and she was received by the vice presidents of the Federation Domingos Nascimento and Nair Almeida, as well as the Federation secretary general, Onédio Silva.
Six years after hosting the 22nd edition of the African Senior Women’s Handball Championship, Angola is about to hold another great sports event which is promoted by the African Handball Confederation.
The competition is reserved for the top four teams from the last African championships, held in Senegal in 2022, namely Angola, Cameroon, Senegal and Congo.
The pre-Olympic tournaments began to be played in 2015, when the African championships ceased to be qualifiers for the games organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Angola hosted the first edition from 19 to 21 March with the participation of national teams from Tunisia, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Senegal.
From 26 to 29 September 2019, the Senegalese city of Dakar hosted the qualifying competition for the 2020 games in Tokyo. Once again Angola won and qualified.
In the Tokyo Olympic tournament, Angola ended in the 10th position.
Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)