Beninese outfit Finance VC are set to make historical past by changing into one of many first golf equipment from past the East African area to take part within the 2026 Genocide Memorial Volleyball Match in Kigali.
The annual event, organised by the Rwanda Volleyball Federation (FRVB) in collaboration with the Rwanda Nationwide Olympic Committee (RNOC), kinds a part of the commemoration actions honouring victims of the 1994 Genocide in opposition to the Tutsi by way of sport.
Finance VC is anticipated to reach at Kigali Worldwide Airport on Thursday forward of the three-day competitors scheduled for June 19-21.
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This yr’s version has attracted 14 golf equipment competing in each the lads’s and girls’s classes, bringing collectively a number of the strongest volleyball sides from Rwanda and neighbouring international locations.
The lads’s competitors options defending champions Rwanda Vitality Group (REG), Kepler VC, Police VC, Gisagara VC, RP Ngoma VC, APR VC, Uganda’s Sky Volleyball Membership, and Finance VC.
Within the ladies’s class, defending champions Police WVC will face APR WVC, Rwanda Income Authority (RRA), Uganda’s KCB Nkumba VC and Kenya Pipeline Authority from Kenya.
The event can be performed in two phases, starting with the preliminary stage that includes pool matches and quarter-finals the place relevant, earlier than progressing to the semi-finals and finals that may decide the 2026 champions.
