The rich oil Angolan capital, Luanda will be the host of the final Window for teams in group E come February next year.
It was gathered that at the close of submission of bid for the final window of the 2023 FIBA Africa World Cup qualifiers only Angola submitted a bid.
Cote D’Ivoire which hosted Window 3 and 4 was told to forget about staging the final qualifiers by the Basketball world governing body FIBA.
Angola, Cape Verde, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Nigeria and Uganda are in Group E.
Angola needs at least two wins in the window to secure a World Cup qualification just like Cape Verde.
However, Nigeria will need to win all its games and hope other results in groups E and F go their way to grab the final African ticket to the World Cup finals to be co-hosted by Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Meanwhile, Senegal Basketball Federation has written to FIBA requesting to stage Window 5 of qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup for Group F.
The President of the Federation, Me Babacar Ndiaye, during an interview on Thursday, said they have sent a letter to FIBA in that regard.
“We want to organise, we want it. The Senegalese Sports Minister, Matar Ba also gave his agreement in principle.
“But I learnt that Egypt wants it just like any other country. But in any case, we had made the distribution in a global way that Egypt was going to organise in July, Tunisia in August and Senegal in February 2023.
“The organisation of the February window in Senegal is not yet official.
“But I wrote to FIBA on Thursday and It’s a letter I sent to FIBA to say that I would like to organize the February window.
“I also told them that the principle of organising the February Window in Dakar was accepted and I am hopeful but the decision does not come from me,” he said.
Cote d’Ivoire and Tunisia hosted the 4th Window of the qualifiers last month.
Previous Host Cities:
Window 1, November 26-28/2021
Group A and C, BENGUELA, Angola
Window 2, February 25-27/2022
Group B and D, DAKAR, Senegal
Window 3, July 1-3/2022
Group A and B, KIGALI, Rwanda
Group C, ABIDJAN, Côte D’Ivoire
Group D, ALEXANDRIA, Egypt
Window 4, August 26-28/2022
Group E, ABIDJAN, Côte D’Ivoire
Group F, MONASTIR, Tunisia