Sports News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019Source: Myjoyonline.comAll African Games: Morocco 2019 team meets Ghana 2023 teamMorocco's LOC with members of GOCA delegation of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the 12th African Games to be hosted by Morocco this August at Rabat met with Ghana 2023 Project Team on the sidelines of the recent 6th AIPS Africa Conference held in Accra. He stressed on the fact of the Games being a touristic attraction, especially as it coincides with the peak season and implored the Ghana Team to use their CO-HOSTING approach to reposition the selected cities on the global market through the Games. He, on behalf of the Rabat 2019 LOC, extended an open invitation to the Ghana 2023 Project Team to see the Games primarily as an African platform for Africans, organised and hosted by Africans and therefore looked forward to greater participation by all the nations of Africa. Replying, Dr. Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah, the Technical Advisor (Sports) at Ghana's Ministry of Youth and Sports and member of the Ghana 2023 Project Team thanked the delegation for accepting to explore further collaboration between the two host nations of the Games to strengthen its brand globally. He assured the LOC of Ghana's total participation in the Games as it will assist the nation to build on the success story of 2019 to showcase an even better Games in 2023.

Source: GhanaWeb April 17, 2019 09:56 UTC