Will Zambia be ready to host All Africa Games?

LUSAKA: Recent assurances by Zambia's newly appointed Sports Minister, Kenneth Chipungu, that the country will successfully host the All Africa Games (AAG) in 2011 sound hollow given that the situation on the ground tells a completely different story.

The country's sports infrastructure has seriously degenerated and so far, repair and construction work that is supposed to be completed by the end of next year has not gone past the tendering stage. 

There has been a major reversal of sports development in the country following the wave of privatisations in the copper mining industry.

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