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IX All-Africa Games
Host city	Algiers, Algeria
Nations participating	36
Events	24 sports
Opening ceremony	11 July 2007
Closing ceremony	23 July 2007
Main Stadium	Stade 5 Juillet 1962

The 9th All-Africa Games took place in July 11–23 2007 in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. Algiers is the first city to hold All-Africa Games for a second time. The 1978 All-Africa Games were held there. Besides Algeria, only Nigeria has hosted the event twice, but with different host cities.

Competitions

The following 24 sports were competed:

Paralympic sports:

• Athletics
• Basketball
• Goalball

Three disciplines, Baseball, Softball and Field hockey were dropped by the hosts, since these sports are hardly played in Algeria and consequently lack suitable facilities ^[1]. The hockey competition would have doubled as qualifier for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, thus African Hockey Federation organised a separate olympic qualifying tournament in Nairobi, Kenya, held simultaneously with the All-Africa Games ^[2].

Water Polo was not competed due to lack of teams ^[3]. It was supposed to be an Olympic qualifier.

Medals

Host country highlighted.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	74	62	63	199
2	Algeria	70	58	77	205
3	South Africa	61	66	53	180
4	Nigeria	50	55	54	159
5	Tunisia	48	41	58	147
6	Kenya	13	15	10	38
7	Senegal	8	12	26	46
8	Zimbabwe	7	8	8	23
9	Botswana	6	2	5	13
10	Cameroon	4	6	17	27
11	Ethiopia	4	5	10	19
12	Angola	4	1	7	12
13	Libya	4	5	10	19
14	Ghana	3	10	12	25
15	Eritrea	3	1	2	6
16	Sudan	3	0	1	4
17	Seychelles	3	6	1	11
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2	2	1	5
19	Zambia	1	2	6	9
20	Gambia	2	1	3	6
21	Lesotho	1	1	2	4
22	Mali	1	0	3	4
23	Uganda	1	0	1	2
24	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
25	Côte d'Ivoire	0	3	12	15
26	Burkina Faso	0	2	1	3
27	Congo	0	1	3	4
27	Madagascar	0	1	3	4
29	Guinea	0	1	2	3
29	Malawi	0	1	2	3
31	Namibia	0	1	1	2
32	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	1	0	1
33	Tanzania	0	1	0	1
34	Benin	0	0	4	4
35	Guinea-Bissau	0	0	3	3
36	Central African Republic	0	0	1	1
36	Togo	0	0	1	1

References

External links

• http://www.coja2007.dz(in French)
• http://alger2007.acnoa.info/ (french/English)
• Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA)
• Competition schedule (French)
• General programme (French)