By Ernest Ndunda
Preparations for next month’s East and Central Africa Inter-Cities basketball championships in Mombasa are in top gear.
Coast Basketball Association Chairman Hilmi Ali said the five-day championships slated for March 23 to 28 has attracted 15 teams from Zanzibar, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and hosts 
Ali said Mombasa, being the host city, would enter two men and the same number of women’s teams comprising schoolboys and girls to expose the students. He said Kenya Ports Authority Welfare Center and Mombasa Baptist High are the official play courts for the championships.
Some of the teams expected are Dar-Es-Salaam, Arusha, Mwanza and Tanga (all form Tanzania), Zanzibar, Harare (Zimbabwe) Mogadishu (Somalia) and APR of Rwanda. Nairobi will enter both men and women’s teams. Mombasa and Nairobi will be defending men and women’s titles they won last year in Arusha.
Municipal Council of Mombasa and Ketty Tours are some of the envent sponsors,, with more expected.