Nairobi, March 5 -- Kenyan athletes have boycotted the national trials for the Africa Games starting Friday in Accra, Ghana.

The athletes were protesting the quota of 35 slots allocated by the Kenya National Sports Council (KNSC) to Athletics Kenya.

Kenya plans to send 30 athletes (16 men and 14 women) and five officials to the Games, having cut athletics participation by about 50 percent from the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco.

Kenya collected 31 medals: 11 gold, 10 silver, and 10 bronze from the 2019 African Games. From the haul, athletics contributed 10 gold, seven silver, and three bronze medals. The national women's volleyball team, Malkia Strikers, got the other gold medal.

Trouble started when athletes were summoned to th...