Men's Africa Cup handball tourney postponed to June

The 25th edition of the African Handball Confederation (CAHB) Men' Seniors Africa Nations Cup 2022 will now take place between 22 June and 2 July, the Confederation has announced. 

The competition had initially been scheduled for 13 to 23 January 2022 but two days after the draw, the African governing body asked member federation to expect changes. 

Released in early December, the draw saw the Kenya Handball men's national team land a tough pool B that had 2020 semi finalists Angola, Morocco and Nigeria for the event scheduled to take place in Gulmim, Morocco.

In their latest communication, CAHB have directed that all other conditions for the competition will not change. However, the pools might change since more members have been encouraged to enter the competition. 

Group A has Tokyo Olympics fourth-place finishers and the competition's defending champions Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Cameroon. Group C will see silver medalist and record title holders Tunisia battle Cape Verde, Guinea and Senegal. 

At the end of the preliminary round, the first two teams from each group as well as the two teams ranked best third will qualify for the Quarter-Finals, Semi-finals and Final.

The last edition of the biennial competition saw Egypt dethrone Tunisia to book a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics Games. Kenya, participating for the third time after a debut in 2004 and again in 2016 lost all their three group matches for an early exit in the main Cup contention. 

The Peter Mwathi-coached men arrived in Tunisia late, missing their opening match against DRC, who were awarded a 10-0 win as per competition rules. They faced Egypt the following day, losing 19-44 before going down 26-17 to Guinea in the final match. 

The side lost by a solitary goal to Libya at 27-26 in the placement matches and 14-30 to Nigeria. They won a fifteenth-place match 28-17 against Zambia