RWANDA is in talks with the World Bank to host next year’s Great Lakes Peace football tournament, a senior official at the Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) has said.“We have already expressed interest and we shall negotiate with the World Bank because we have all the conditions required, including good playgrounds in place,” RDRC Commissioner Serafina Mukantabana told Times Sport.The World Bank funds the annual tournament and this year’s event that brought together four Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda, was hosted in Kampala last week.Mukantabana led the Rwandan delegation to Kampala where Rwanda took third position after beating DRC 4-3 on penalties. “The overall objective of the Great Lakes Peace cup is to promote social integration across different geographical, cultural and political contexts,” she said.This year’s tournament ran under the theme; ‘Youth, Peace and Development’.Mukantabana said that arrangements would begin in earnest where teams of demobilised soldiers at provincial level would compete and the best players would be selected to make the final team to represent the country.
