Africa-Press – Tanzania. THE government has put aside 135m/- for hosting the 2021 Cup of Africa Nations for Amputees (CANAF) championship in Dar es Salaam from November 25th to December 5th this year.
This was confirmed recently by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Culture, Arts and Sports Hassan Abbasi who cemented that the amount is specifically meant to cater for accommodation, food and logistics.
“Our country is blessed to host various high profile events and recently, we successfully staged the Miss and Mr Deaf Africa 2021 hence this is an opportunity for Tanzania to continue being recognised globally,” he said.
He therefore wished all the best the national Amputee side ‘Tembo Warriors’ which will represent Tanzania in the games while insisting that government will be with them throughout the competition.
The contest will be used to generate eight teams which will represent the continent at in world competition to be staged in Turkey next year.
He also called upon other stakeholders to come forward and render a helping hand to support the team saying disabled people have talents which needs to be nurtured.
Recently, president of the Tanzania Amputee Football Federation (TAFF) Peter Sarungi said they tend to do well in the games which have attracted 15 teams from different part of Africa to make the country proud.
Hosts Tanzania are packed in group A together with Sierra Leone, Uganda and Morocco which pundits have described it as a difficult category.
“In our group, we are hopeful that we will make it to the next stage even though it will be the first time to play with Morocco but others, we have played before.
“As such, it is not a deadly group as many people might think but rather, we just need to focus a lot and take each game which comes on our way seriously,” he said recently in the city after the draw was made.
Members in group B of the event are Angola, Rwanda, Kenya and Zanzibar while those in group C are Liberia, Cameroon, Gambia and Ethiopia.
Group D is made up of three sides which are Nigeria, Ghana and Egypt which also seems to be a tough category.
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