EA military games slated for Kenya

KENYA will host the East African Community Military Games and Culture Week this year, the Secretary General of the East African Community (EAC) Richard Sezibera announced in Arusha this week.

Speaking at the opening of the ministerial session of the EAC Sectoral Council on Cooperation in Defence in Arusha, Tanzania, Sezibera said the 5-17 August event comes at a time when the EAC integration process is intensifying on all fronts.

Secretary General of the East African Community Dr Richard Sezibera

The Military Games and Culture Week, first held within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in Defence, last took place in Bujumbura, Burundi, in 2011.

The Games entail a variety of sporting disciplines including: handball, football, netball, crosscountry and basketball among others.

According to the event organizers, the primary objective of the event is to nurture an esprit de corps among the EAC defence forces and for individual soldiers to appreciate the diverse cultures in the region.

Sezibera said EAC’s defence and security policy is rooted in the empirical observation that if countries in the region are co-operating among themselves in pursuit of human and economic development, they will have neither reason nor cause to resort to violent conflict.

The EAC chief told the meeting that with the rising threat of international terrorism, piracy and creeping instability in a multiplicity of hot spots around the world, “the issues of defence and security have assumed greater importance and significance in the agenda of nations and indeed the agenda of groupings of nations such as our Patrice Evra own”.

Source Tanzania Daily News

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