Security top priority

Organisers for this month’s African athletics championships said here Thursday security would be a top priority in the wake of the deadly bomb attacks in neighbouring Uganda at the weekend.

Kenya is set to host some of Africa’s top athletes including double Ethiopian Olympic champions Kenenisa Bekele and Tirunesh Dibaba and South Africa’s 800m world champion Mbualeni Mulaudzi at the event. “We are leaving no chances on the security of the athletes.

Their arrival itineraries will be kept out of public knowledge and we will ensure that the accommodation locations for some of the teams are kept a secret,” Isaiah Kiplagat, head of the Africa 2010 organising committee, told reporters.

NAIROBI, Friday AFP