{"id":435121,"date":"2011-06-03T05:28:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/zone-v-meet-starts-amid-cash-worries\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T05:28:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T05:28:20","slug":"zone-v-meet-starts-amid-cash-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/zone-v-meet-starts-amid-cash-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Zone V Meet Starts Amid Cash Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"38.9977246871\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecitizen.co.tz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Citizen<\/a> (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam)<\/p>\n<p>Majuto Omary<\/p>\n<p>2 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Zone Five Athletics Championship gets underway today at the National Stadium with leading runners from 10 countries setting their sights on top prizes.However, it remains to be seen whether the tournament will meet international standards as Athletics Tanzania (AT) is facing a huge budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>AT secretary general Suleiman Nyambui said yesterday that the budget for the tournament was Sh100 million, but only about Sh40 million has so far been obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The amount raised is just 40 per cent of the projected budget for the tournament that would draw world attention.<\/p>\n<p>However, yesterday the cash-strapped athletics body had a sigh of relief after receiving a Sh5 million boost from a beer brewing firm, Serengeti Breweries Limited (SBL), through its Malta Guinness brand.<\/p>\n<p>Nyambui expressed his gratitude to the company officials for the support saying the money would help ease the running of the regional competition.&#8221;We&#8217;re happy that SBL has come forward to support us, we are in a very bad financial situation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the tournament starts today, the legendary middle distance runner called upon other athletics stakeholders to support them. He named the countries whose athletes would line up today as: Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>Others are: Rwanda, Zanzibar and the host, Tanzania Mainland.Malta Guinness Brand Manager, Maurice Njowoka said during a brief handover ceremony that they were proud to be associated with the Zone V tournament.Nyambui disclosed that the body had received Sh20m from the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) and Sh5m (ITV and the Chinese Community of Tanzania).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106030044.html\" title=\"Zone V Meet Starts Amid Cash Worries\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zone V Meet Starts Amid Cash Worries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Majuto Omary 2 June 2011 The Zone Five Athletics Championship gets underway today at the National Stadium with leading runners from 10 countries setting their sights on top prizes.However, it remains to be seen whether the tournament will meet international standards as Athletics Tanzania (AT) is facing a huge budget deficit. AT secretary general Suleiman Nyambui said yesterday that the budget for the tournament was Sh100 million, but only about Sh40 million has so far been obtained. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zone V Meet Starts Amid Cash Worries - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/zone-v-meet-starts-amid-cash-worries\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zone V Meet Starts Amid Cash Worries - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Citizen (Dar\u00a0es\u00a0Salaam) Majuto Omary 2 June 2011 The Zone Five Athletics Championship gets underway today at the National Stadium with leading runners from 10 countries setting their sights on top prizes.However, it remains to be seen whether the tournament will meet international standards as Athletics Tanzania (AT) is facing a huge budget deficit. 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