The games will take place in Maroua as from Sunday March 27 to April 2, 2011.

The 13th edition of the national school games dubbed Fenassco ‘A’ will begin in Maroua on Sunday March 27 with delegations from all the ten regions of the country expected to be represented. According to the president of Fenassco ‘A’, Mandeng Samuel Rigobert, all is now set for the effective lick off of the competition. The sports infrastructure has been renovated and arrangements completed concerning the accommodation and transportation of the various delegations to the game venue. Over 2000 people are expected in the Far North regional headquarters, 1530 of them athletes and officials.

The games which have been placed under the theme, “school games and the culture of peace” will see secondary school students from all over the country compete in ten sports disciplines namely; judo, athletics, gymnastics, table tennis, football, basketball, wrestling, volleyball and handball in  both the female and male categories.

In his message on the occasion of the games, the minister of Secondary Education, Louis Bapes Bapes, said the theme was chosen to highlight the national and global drive for peace “by promoting values, attitudes and behaviours that stand for peace, non violence, tolerance, dialogue, reconciliation and development”. As such organisers say they will be exercising zero tolerance on fraud and violence during the games. The major innovations this year will include competitions in wrestling by girls, table tennis for motorised handicapped students, feminine football and the singing of the national anthem in the various game sites every morning and at the beginning of every first game as a sort of civic education for the students.