{"id":38045,"date":"2018-08-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/feasssa-2018-rwanda-primary-schools-emerge-the\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T14:56:42","slug":"feasssa-2018-rwanda-primary-schools-emerge-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/feasssa-2018-rwanda-primary-schools-emerge-the\/","title":{"rendered":"FEASSSA 2018: Rwanda primary schools emerge the best in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regional schools\u2019 championship was running in Musanze District of the Northern Province from 10th to 20th August.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time primary schools have participated in FEASSSA, Rwanda won nine medals. They include four gold, four silver and one bronze. <\/p>\n<p>In this category, Uganda won one gold medal, one silver and three bronze. Kenya did not participate in primary schools\u2019 category.<\/p>\n<p>In general, Uganda dominated with 30 medals, Kenya took 28 while Rwanda won 25 medals. <\/p>\n<p>{{Rwanda was hosting FEASSSA for the third time.<br \/>\n}}<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan students maintained their top position in athletics in the region. Rwanda dominated in tennis and volleyball among girl and boy teams and in boys\u2019 basketball.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the FEASSA closing on Sunday, the State Minister in charge of TVET at the Ministry of Education, Olivier Rwamukwaya said the role of FEASSSA goes beyond competition on the pitch to become a way of strengthening relations among the regional countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe games have been well played. Physical exercises play a vital role in the learning process. These games help children bring out their talents and build relations among our countries,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Father Innocent Gatete, the leader of Schools Sports Association in Rwanda, cautioned schools for using non-students players, saying measures have been taken to detect all the malpractices in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26813 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abanya_kenya_bishimira_igikombe_kiruta_ibindi_begukanye_nk_ikipe_yatwaye_imidali_myinshi_mu_cyiciro_cy_amashuri_yisumbuye-f0d82.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan students maintained their top position in athletics in the region\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26814 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ikipe_ya_buddo_ss_yo_muri_uganda_yegukanye_igikombe_mu_mupira_w_amaguru_itsinze_ldk_yo_mu_rwanda_kuri_penaliti-9fe20.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda Primary Schools won one gold medal, one silver and three bronze\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s primary schools have won more medals than any other country at the 18th Edition of the Federation of East African Secondary School Sports (FEASSSA) Championship. <\/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-38045","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\/38045","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=38045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38045"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}