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ted out that the IOC has backed several social reintegration programmes

in cooperation with NOC Rwanda and UNICEF. Jacques Rogge was incompany with ANOCA President, Intendant General Lassana Palenfo,Rwandas Minister of Sport, Protais Mitali, the NOC President Charles

Rudakubana and the Executive Secretary of the Council of East and Cen-tral Africa Football Associations (CECAFA), Nicholas Musonye.

Dr jacques Rogge also availed himself of the opportunity of the tour to de-corate President Paul Kagame for his numerous undertakings in the pro-

motion of sport and Olympism.

From Rwanda, the IOC President headed to Burundi on 02 September

2011. He was received in audience by the Head of State, Pierre Nkurunziza,in his native province of Ngozi, in North Burundi. Dr Rogge thereaftervisited the Kanyosha Urban Council, where he saw for himself progress atthe construction site of the Olympafrica Centre, a sports complex located

south of Bujumbura.The IOC president later went by helicopter to Gatumba Council, a province

of Bujumbura at the border with Congo, to inaugurate a regional sportscentre for youths jointly built by the IOC, the United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP) and the government of Burundi.


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The last lap of this African tour took the IOC President to Mozambique,

where he graced the opening ceremony of the 10th All Africa Games on 03September 2011 and deliberations of the 14th session of the ANOCA Gene-ral Assembly.

Dr Jacques Rogge equally held fruitful discussions with African NOC of-cials, and these dwelled mainly on the management of the African Olympic

Movement as a whole, the nancial situation of the IOC and the institu-tions major challenges at the dawn of the 21st century. Another major

highlight of the Mozambique lap of the IOC Presidents tour was the visitto the Boanne Olympafrica Centre. In this vein, he visited a health centreand a primary school that had four months earlier received desks from

ANOCA.

He was also received in audience by the Mozambican Head of State andlaid the foundation stone of the countrys future NOC headquarters.

Sufce it to note that the IOC President was accompanied on every lap ofhis tour by a high level delegation comprising Intendant General LassanaPalenfo, President of ANOCA, Mr Thomas Sithol, IOC Director of Coope-

ration and Mr Pere Miro, Olympique Solidarity Director.

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