{"id":9786,"date":"2018-08-17T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2018-08-17T07:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:53:38","slug":"burundi-opens-first-edition-of-eac-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-opens-first-edition-of-eac-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi opens first edition of EAC games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burundi has officially opened a tournament of EAC games to be held in the towns of Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi from 16 to 30 August 2018. Different authorities say it is a great opportunity to reinforce unity and integration within EAC country members. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Butore, the second deputy president, says this tournament is an opportunity to bring together citizens from EAC member states. \u201cThe sport event that starts today is an occasion to bring together citizens living in the member states of the EAC who have committed themselves to being one people for one destiny,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9787\" style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9787\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9787\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tanzanian-delegation-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Only the Tanzanian delegation was present during the opening ceremonies of the tournament of the EAC games.\" width=\"465\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tanzanian-delegation-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tanzanian-delegation-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tanzanian-delegation-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Tanzanian-delegation.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only the Tanzanian delegation was present during the opening ceremonies of the tournament of the EAC games.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Butore says this tournament is also an occasion to rethink the sport\u2019s role in the socio-economic development and promotion of human values. Sport is also way of strengthening partnership between member states, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>As for Lib\u00e9rat Mpfumukeko, EAC Secretary General, he says this event will widen and deepen the EAC integration process. \u201cIt\u2019s is an occasion to share cultural, social and linguistic heritage between EAC member states\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Ali Kirunda Kivenjija, Chairman of the EAC Council of Ministers, says sport is needed as it helps people develop spiritual flexibility. \u201cWe must encourage sports to integrate the culture that there must be a winner and loser in any contest. If you lose, don&#8217;t say you were cheated,\u201d he says adding that the loser should rather find out why s\/he lost and make some improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kirunda says sport is a way of preaching that a loser is not to be blamed and a way of making people concede defeat. \u201cLosing is not the end of the world. We should therefore accept defeat,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nWhile the tournament was due to begin this August 16, 2018, only the Tanzanian delegation and the host country (Burundi) were present during the opening ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>The member states of the East African Community are Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi has officially opened a tournament of EAC games to be held in the towns of Bujumbura, Gitega and Ngozi from 16 to 30 August 2018. Different authorities say it is a great opportunity to reinforce unity and integration within EAC country members. Joseph Butore, the second deputy president, says this tournament is an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9788,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}