Nairobi, May 14 -- The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) says a three-year partnership between the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS) and the Ethiopian National Anti-Doping Organization (ETH-NADO) "has had significant benefits for the protection of clean sport in Africa."

Under the terms of the agreement, which was facilitated and monitored by Wada, SAIDS provided support, guidance and expertise to ETH-NADO to help build its anti-doping capacity, insidethegames.biz website reported on Wednesday.

"The WADA says the partnership has led to improvements in the organisation and structure of ETH-NADO, as well as boosting its doping control programmes including urine and blood testing," insidethegames.biz reported.

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