According
to the semi-final schedules APR (Rwanda) will take on Al Merreikh El Fasher
(Sudan) on Friday 28th of June, while Vital’O (Burundi) will play
against Rayon Sport (Rwanda) on Saturday 29th of June. On
Thursday, Vital’O (Burundi) handed Djiboti’s Ports a 6-0, thrashing while Rayon
Sport (Rwanda) run down URA (Uganda) by 3-2 to culminate in the semi-finals of
the competition.
As
shown in the schedules, Sunday will be rest day, as Monday will be the final
day of the two week-long competition. Also on Monday loser 20 VS loser 21 will play
in a bid to get winner 20 VS winner 21 who will be competing for the 3rdplace of the tournament.
This
is the first time in history that CECAFA is holding a tournament in the
troubled Sudanese regions of North Darfur and south Gordofan in a bid to help
the restoration of peace and stability into the areas where the United Nations
estimates that hundreds of thousands of civilians died because of wars for years
of armed conflicts.
However
it seems that the regional peace campaigner and CECAFA Secretary General Mr. Nicholas
Musonye has succeeded in his attempts of implementing a very progressive football
for peace imitative in the regions.
Earlier Mr. Musonye told CECAFA media that he was hopeful of taking the CECAFA tournaments to Somalia and he will not hesitate to doing everything that can help to find the East and Central Africa region free from wars and violence in the soonest time possible.
Pictures from El Fasher stadium
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