The African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) has relocated the 2026 Males’s African Nations Championship from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Tunisia resulting from prevailing public well being considerations that delayed preparations within the host nation.
The championship, initially scheduled to happen in Kinshasa from September 7–21, will now be held in Tunis from September 13–26, in accordance with a press release issued by CAVB on Thursday.
“The 2026 African Nations Championship was scheduled to be held in Kinshasa, DR-Congo. Nonetheless, resulting from prevailing public well being considerations within the nation, the CAVB Board of Administration has determined to relocate the championship to Tunis,” the assertion reads.
The twenty fifth version of the continental championship will characteristic 16 nationwide groups: Rwanda, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Cameroon, DRC, Chad, Kenya, Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Uganda, Zimbabwe and hosts Tunisia.
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Rwanda’s nationwide crew is at present present process intensive preparations because the technical employees works to finalize the squad that can characterize the nation on the continental championship.
The ultimate squad is predicted to be confirmed by August 25. The provisional squad at present contains 19 gamers after Willy Rukundo, Venuste Gatsinzi and D’Amour Munyamahoro had been dropped from the preliminary choice.
Solely 14 gamers will make the ultimate squad for the championship in Tunis.
