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The Ministry of Youth and Sports has defined September as the deadline for auscultation of federations on the programme of modalities priorities, ahead of London's 2012 Olympic Games, the national director of sports, Raimundo Ricardo announced.
Twenty-three states in the country have registered to be part of this year's celebration of the Olympic Day scheduled to hold on July 11. Three key events, including a 10km run, are also on the card to make the event a total departure from how it was previously celebrated.
The president of the National Paralympic Committee, Dominique Bizimana was last week elected by regional Executive Paralympic Committees in Dar-es-salaam to head the East African Federation of Sports for People with Disabilities.
MORE than 500 athletes took part in Olympic Day celebrations at High Glen shopping centre in the capital.
For the first time in about a decade, Uganda joined the rest of the world to celebrate the World Olympic Day.
The chairperson of the Angolan Olympic Committee (COA), Gustavo da Conceição, Friday was re-elected to the post for the next four years, in which he promises to work for a better representativeness of the country in 2012 London Olympic Games.
The Ijebu-Ode Sub-seat began the test running of its hosting facilities yesterday with the 2009 South West Regional Games of the Special Olympics Nigeria. The championship will run from June 21 to 25 at the Gateway International Stadium.
Botswana National Olympics Committee (BNOC) president Negroes Kgosietsile believes he should be re-elected to the post because he is on the verge of achieving more milestones at the organisation.
TWO top Malawi National Olympic Committee officials arrived in Harare last Saturday for an eight-day fact-finding mission in Zimbabwe.
The Anoca meeting will see some of Africa's top sports administrators fighting for various positions on the organisation's executive board, currently led by its president Lassana Palenfo of Cote d'Ivoire.
Botswana National Olympics Committee (BNOC) has instituted seven commissions to help it perform its mandate.
