{"id":36800,"date":"2018-01-16T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-to-host-2018-feasssa-competition\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T16:44:55","slug":"rwanda-to-host-2018-feasssa-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-to-host-2018-feasssa-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to host 2018 FEASSSA competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The games will take place in Musanze District of Northern Province.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda was admitted following the monitoring exercise by 40 delegates from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. The monitoring exercise took place on 13th and 14th.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation monitored different infrastructures and pitches which would facilitate the games go smoothly. <\/p>\n<p>FEASSSA President, Justus Mugisha said that Rwanda has majority of requirements, a reason that they were allowed to host the games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy to announce that first monitoring exercises revealed that majority of requirements are in place. We also affirm that the competition will go smoothly based on previous competitions that Rwanda hosted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that more monitoring exercises will be conducted as the preparation of competition continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second monitoring exercise will be conducted in April to observe how all requirements will be already in place,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Musanze District Vice-mayor in charge of finance and economic development, Augustin Ndabereye said that hosting the competition in the district is another advantages for local investors.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is a big opportunity that we are going to use by putting in place good infrastructures on expected standards, we also call upon investors to offer good services as they will be hosting different people from different places,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>FEASSSA competition will include different games like football, Volleyball, Handball, Tennis and Swimming among others.<\/p>\n<p>For its 3rd time to take place in the country, the competition will attract 4000 competitors from East African Community Countries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23757 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/feasssa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has been confirmed as  the host of the 2018 Federation of East Africa Secondary Schools Sports Associations (FEASSSA) games that are expected to take place in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}