{"id":2978,"date":"2012-08-27T03:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-to-host-cecafa-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T04:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T04:16:11","slug":"uganda-to-host-cecafa-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-to-host-cecafa-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda to Host CECAFA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda will host the 2012 East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup after Kenya was stripped of hosting rights due to its poor organisation, officials said.}}<\/p>\n<p>Kenya was appointed to host the regional competition at the last Cecafa congress meeting in Dar es Salaam last December.<\/p>\n<p>However, general secretary Nicholas Musonye said they have had to reverse that decision after the tournament sponsors, East African Breweries Limited asked to move it to Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sponsors raised their concern over the organizational abilities of the Football Kenyan Federation, which has been accused of being so divisive.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sponsor has the final obligation to make their decision where they would want the tournament to be held. It&#8217;s Uganda and that is their stand,&#8221; said Musonye.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Rwanda President Paul Kagame hosted the Cecafa champions-Yanga Africans Sports Club of Tanzania- Village Urugwiro, 23 August.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame noted that sponsorship of the regional tournament (populary known as Kagame Cup) will continue even after he leaves political office.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1605 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sde.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1604 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda will host the 2012 East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup after Kenya was stripped of hosting rights due to its poor organisation, officials said.}} Kenya was appointed to host the regional competition at the last Cecafa congress meeting in Dar es Salaam last December. However, general secretary Nicholas Musonye said they have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}