A fast final at the 2014 African Championships in Athletics saw Kombe improve further to 45.27 seconds. This brought him fourth place while Makwala set a championship record over a second ahead. The finish earned him a place on the relay team for Africa at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup, an event in which the Africans (Makwala, Kombe, Boniface Mucheru and Wayde Van Niekerk) were victorious.