Two-time world champion Giana Lotfy of Egypt duly earned her third continental crown  as her nation won three gold medals on the day, but Morocco - which had won four kata golds on the opening day - added another four senior and one junior gold to its total.

Lotfy had arrived in the Botswana capital as the headline name and lived up to her billing in the women's under-61 kilograms kumite division, where she beat Algeria’s Midi Chaima in the gold medal match.

Bronze medals went to Morocco’s Sadini Btissam and Tunisia’s Hasnaoui Boutheina.

Egypt, who topped the medals table at the last edition of the UFAK Senior Championships in Kigali last year, were hoping to stage a fight back at the University of Botswana Indoor Sports Centre.

Men’s kumite athletes Ali Elsaway in the under-67kg, and Tarek Mahmoud in the over-84kg added further golds for Egypt with respective wins over Marc Kollo of Cameroon and Hocine Daikhi of Algeria.

But the Moroccan golds were also stacking up.

In male kumite, Abdessalam Ameknassi  beat Egypt’s Malek Salama in th under-60kg final, and Yassine Sekouri  beat Egypt’s Mamduh Abdelaziz in the under-75kg class.

In female kumite, Aicha Sayah beat Egypt’s Radwa Saya in the under-50kg class,  and in the under-55kg category Khawla Ouhammed beat Algeria’s Widad Draou.

In the junior kumite female under-53kg class, Sara Slassi beat Oratile Monametsi of Botswana.

Not all the golds went to the big two.

In the men’s kumite under-84kg class, Tunisia’s Thameur Slimani beat Lahad Cisse of Senegal to gold.

In women’s kumite under-68kg, Amina Dione of Senegal beat Algeria’s Lamya Matoub in the final, and in the over-68kg Chahnez Jami of Tunisia beat Cameroon’s Ghislaine Angama.

Cameroon claimed gold in the junior kumite male under-55kg class as Harold Amandia beat Jaden Niemack of South Africa.