Sports Updates:Kenyan teams for All African Games kicked out of hotel

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Kenyan teams set for all African Games in Morocco that starts next week on Monday have been kicked out of their hotel rooms booked at St. Luke's Nairobi where they were to converge before leaving the country. The NAIROBI SUN has learnt that the teams had not paid for their accommodation forcing the hotel to kick them out.

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