On 16 October 2010 the very first “Friendship Games” took place in the Great Lakes region of Africa, at the border between Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, under the sponsorship of the Burundian Olympic Champion Venuste Niyangabo (Gold Medal for 5000m in the Atlanta Olympic Games 1996), . A day of trans-border sports competitions to promote peace and unite young people from the 2 countries around the values of friendship and fraternity offered by sport.
