National U-18 women's squad dissolves camp 

After weeks of rescheduling, everything now points to another postponement of the CECAFA U-18 Women’s Championship initially scheduled for the June 29 kickoff.

This comes after fresh developments indicated that both Tanzania and Uganda had resulted in dissolving active camps.

The move has been brought about by the fact that CECAFA, through the body's Executive Director Auka Gecheo, had ‘informed the teams that the competition had been postponed to a later date'.

"We just have out the information that the tournament may be moved to after July 13, we will give a final position on the way forward once we finalize the arrangements,” the official noted.

If the reports are factual, that would present the fourth time the tournament has been moved in months.

The first CECAFA U-18 Women's tournament of the season was initially penciled to take place on June 3-17 before being pushed to June 24-July 8.

Just a week ago, CECAFA, while announcing that seven teams had confirmed their participation, opted - this time in negotiation with FKF - to push the tournament by five days; resetting the dates to June 29-July 11.

With Tanzania and Kenya camps broken, it is noted that 30 out of 44 players making Kenya’s U-18 women’s team camp are active.

“If they move it a lot of countries will withdraw,” Otieno added. “July 13 is tricky for most countries with exams and school games,” Football Kenya Federation CEO Barry Otieno clarified.

The confidence that pushing the start of the showpiece forward will give Member Associations enough time to prepare their teams for the season-opening tournament on the CECAFA calendar has turned out to be different after Tanzania and Uganda dissolved their teams' camps.

The countries that had confirmed participation include Kenya’s Junior Starlets, Ethiopia, Mainland Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Zanzibar.