{"id":6626,"date":"2017-08-21T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2017-08-22T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:21:03","slug":"rwanda-will-not-participate-in-eac-military-games-and-cultural-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/rwanda-will-not-participate-in-eac-military-games-and-cultural-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda will not participate in EAC military games and cultural events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burundi will host the 11th session of East African Community military games and cultural events since August 26th 2017. All EAC member states will be present in the competition except Rwanda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6625\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6625\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-6625\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"Gaspard Baratuza, Spokesperson for the Army: \u201cEAC member states came to prepare the competition except Rwanda.\u201d \" width=\"389\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella-1024x964.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella-600x565.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Baratuza-site-Bella.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaspard Baratuza, Spokesperson for the Army: \u201cEAC member states came to prepare the competition except Rwanda.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Preparations for this competition have started since February but Rwanda did not take part in them. \u201cSince February, we received a delegation of persons from EAC member states who came to prepare the competition.They came to see where participants in the game will be lodged, tourist sites,\u2026but no delegation from Rwanda came. This means that it will not partake in the competition\u201d, says Gaspard Baratuza, Spokesperson for the Army in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the reason behind this absence of the neighbouring country in those competitions, the spokesperson for the army said it is not to the Defence Ministry to respond to that question. \u201cI think this question is not directed to the right person. We received those who came\u201d. As for the possible consequences of Rwanda\u2019s absence in the competition, the Army spokesman says it is a loss.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda hosted the 10th session of this competition last year and Burundi did not participate in it.<br \/>\nThose games and cultural events are organised each year. They are hosted by one of the EAC member states and aim at reinforcing social cohesion and esprit de corps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi will host the 11th session of East African Community military games and cultural events since August 26th 2017. All EAC member states will be present in the competition except Rwanda. Preparations for this competition have started since February but Rwanda did not take part in them. \u201cSince February, we received a delegation of persons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[113,1174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6634,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}