Athletics at the 2023 African Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 5000 metres event at the 2023 African Games was held on 22 March 2024 in Accra, Ghana.^[1][2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hagos Gebrhiwet	Ethiopia	13:38.12
	Abdullahi Jama Mohamed	Somalia	13:38.64
	Cornelius Kemboi	Kenya	13:40.61
4	Kuma Girma	Ethiopia	13:43.58
5	Getnet Wale	Ethiopia	13:44.45
6	Célestin Ndikumana	Burundi	13:45.34
7	Precious Mashele	South Africa	13:46.19
8	Simon Koech	Kenya	13:49.35
9	Seare Dawit	Eritrea	13:52.53
10	Evans Kiptum	Kenya	13:53.28
11	Fikadu Ghebremeskel	Eritrea	13:55.41
12	Wellington Varevi	Zimbabwe	13:57.54
13	Emilie Hafashimana	Burundi	14:10.03
14	Sougueh Aden Houssein	Djibouti	14:25.49
15	António Teko	Angola	14:54.61
16	Echen Obega	The Gambia	14:57.71
17	Abubakarr Conteh	Sierra Leone	14:57.80
	Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim	Djibouti	DNS
	Peter Qambaway	Tanzania	DNS
	Merhawi Mebrahtu	Eritrea	DNS
	Abraham Guem	South Sudan	DNS