African Chess Championship

The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title.
The 2007 championship was the FIDE Zone 4 qualifier for the Chess [World Cup 2007], the next stage in the World [Chess Championship 2010|2010 World Championship]. Six players qualified for the 2007 World Cup: IM Robert Gwaze, IM Pedro Aderito, IM Essam El Gindy, GM Bassem Amin, GM Ahmed Adly, and FM Khaled Abdel Razik.