Egypt women’s sitting volleyball team set for Rwandan camp
The Egypt women’s national sitting volleyball team will have a one-week long training camp in Rwanda next week. They will also play friendly matches against their Rwandan counterparts from November...
View ArticleHistory beckons as 2014 Tour du Rwanda enters penultimate stage
Team Rwanda Karisimbi rider Valens Ndayisenga is edging closer to being the first Rwandan to win the prestigious Tour du Rwanda as the elite competition enters stage six today. Valens Ndayisenga after...
View ArticleJK mourns Munyuku, Baraka
President Jakaya Kikwete has sent a message of condolences to the Minister of Information, Youth, Culture and Sports, Fenella Mukangara, following the deaths on Wednesday of two sports journalists,...
View ArticleDefining moment for Ndayisenga as 2014 Tour du Rwanda climaxes
A nation prays and waits anxiously. For five years foreigners have dominated the country’s premier cycling competition, which is also one of the best on the continent. Sports Minister Joseph Habineza...
View Article‘Lady Dianna’ win Tanga fishing contest
Tanga anglers nicknamed ‘Lady Dianna’ won the Tanga Open fishing competition after hauling 35.1kg of Sail Fish at the Tanga Yacht Club on the first day over the weekend. Tanga Cement Public Limited...
View ArticleCycling is Rwanda’s number one sport
A nation united and cheered on Team Rwanda Cycling (TRC) during the just concluded Tour du Rwanda like their lives depended on it. They stood by the roadsides, waved, clapped and had to endure the...
View ArticleTour du Rwanda: Ndayisenga makes history
The 2014 Tour du Rwanda winner Valens Ndayisenga says that the many elite competitions he participated in this year as well as training at world cycling center at Aigle in Switzerland spurred him to...
View ArticleNew Vision editor elected USPA president
KAMPALA – Sabiiti Muwanga, the deputy sports editor of New Vision, has been elected president of the Uganda Sports Press Association (USPA) 2014-2016. Muwanga was voted on Saturday during the USPA...
View ArticleVolleyball: KAVC on song
National Council of Sports (NCS) was forced to kick out KAVC fans from Lugogo whose unending celebrations were on the verge of getting out of hand. KAVC fans had gone into a frenzy after their club...
View ArticleNdayisenga eyes professional cycling career
After winning the Tour du Rwanda, Valens Ndayisenga is keen on pursuing a professional career. Rwanda has only one professional rider-Adrien Niyonshuti who rides for South Africa’s MTN Qhubekha....
View ArticleGraber best angler in Tanga Open contest
Tanga angler Mike Graber from the popular ‘Timu Kichaa’ (Crazy Team), using a boat titled ‘Bob Cat’ has emerged the best angler of the two-day Tanga Cement Open Fishing Competition, which ended at...
View ArticleRwanda Volleyball senior team set to start training in January
The national senior volleyball team will start preparations for the Zone V championships in January next year which will serve as a qualifier for the All African Games slated for September 4–19 in...
View ArticleNiyonshuti inspired me, says Ndayisenga
When renowned cyclist Adrien Niyonshuti finished 39th in the mountain bike competition at the London 2012 Olympics on August 12, Valens Ndayisenga received the news the following day as his coach John...
View ArticleWe need new leaders, says sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario
Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario has called for the emergence of new sports administrators who will take the continent to higher places. In a speech read on his behalf by Commissioner of Sports...
View Article4bn/- for Jakaya Kikwete academy
About 4bn/- is expected to be spent on the construction of a proposed Jakaya Kikwete Sports Academy at Msolwa area in Coast Region next year. The 25-acre centre will host several sports including...
View ArticleKaratu sports festival set for December 20
This year’s Karatu 10 kilometre race will be held on December 20, it has been confirmed. Event coordinator Meta Petro said yesterday the deadline for confirming participation is December 10. The...
View ArticleTwende maintain poor run
Tanzania ladies Twende continued their poor run in the ongoing Africa hockey Cup of Club Championships after conceding a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Shams of Egypt at Khumalo Stadium in Bulawayo on...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Tanzania present sports kits
Coca-Cola Tanzania have handed over sports kits for 16 football regions that qualified for the national finals of the U-15 talents scouting football tournament – Copa Coca-Cola –to be held in Dar es...
View ArticleFive advance in snooker
The Vintage Snooker tournament entered its second day at the Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club (DGC) on Tuesday night with Nitin Somani, San Tosh and Zoeb Hakimjee sailing through to the second round....
View ArticleNdayisenga set for UCI World Cycling Centre clinic
Tour du Rwanda winner Valens Ndayisenga is set to return to the UCI World Cycling Centre in Aigle (Switzerland) in April next year as he pursues a professional cycling career. Tour du Rwanda winner...
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