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Kenya’s Ismael Changawa Mzai and Shufaa Changawa dominated this year’s Rwanda Tennis Open, winning the Men and Women’s Singles titles on Saturday at Amahoro National Stadium courts.

The Mombasa natives defeated Ugandan Duncan Mugabe and Burundian Aisha Niyonkuru respectively in the final.

In the men’s title match, Changawa Nzai beat Mugabe in straight sets 6-2, 7-5 for a fourth consecutive victory against the 26-year-old Ugandan top seed. His elder sister Shufaa overcame Niyonkuru in three sets 2-6, 6-2, 7-5.

“It is an honour to be in Rwanda and compete with great players. I came here to win and I am thankful that I won the tournament and to make it even more satisfying is that my sister won the women’s title. Our parents are celebrating now,” Ismael Changawa said.

He noted that, “Our aim is to keep developing and become better players not only in our region but across Africa.”

In the women’s category, Shufaa lost the first set 6-2 before recovering to win the second 6-2 and then the third.

“Last year, I lost in the final but today I wanted to show that I am capable of beating a very good player like Aisha. To come from a set down and win the title and my brother winning the men’s tournament is just amazing. I am now seriously focusing on my dream,” Shufaa said.

Shufaa Changawa, 23, and Ismael Changawa, 20, walked away with US$1000 each in cash prizes.

In the the Women’s Wheelchair Singles’ final, Rehema Saidi Selememani of Tanzania beat Kenyan Jane Ndenga 7-6(4), 1-6, 7-6(1),while the Men’s title was claimed by Novatus Emmanuel Temba (Tanzania) after he defeated Collins Omondi (Kenya) 7-5, 4-6 and 10-4.

The U18 Boys Singles title was won by 17-year old Bertin Karenzi, who defated 13-years old Joseph Cyiza 6-3, 6-0.

The 2017 Rwanda Open attracted 143 players from Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Belgium, Italy, Tanzania, Sweden, Nepal, DR Congo and the hosts Rwanda.

Sunday

Final

Rwanda                2-0          Nigeria

Semi-finals

Rwanda                2-0          Seychelles

Nigeria                  2-0          Mauritius

Rwanda women’s beach volleyball team are the champions of Africa after beating Nigeria in the gold medal match at the African Championships that concluded on Sunday in Free Town, Serra Leone to qualify for 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Charlotte Ndayisenga and Denyse Mutatsimpundu, who won gold at the U20 level in 2012, went a step further by claiming the senior continental title after beating the 2015 All African Games gold medalists in straight sets 2-0.

Rwanda will be Africa’s sole representative at next April’s Commonwealth Games in Australia.

In the round robin system matches played on Friday, Rwanda beat hosts Sierra Leone 2-0 in opening game and went on to defeat Seychelles 2-0, Mauritius 2-0 before overcoming Nigeria 2-0 on Saturday.

 In the semi-finals, Rwanda beat Seychelles 2-0 while Nigeria conquered Seychelles 2-0—the two teams advances to the title match, which Rwanda won 2-0.

Mutatsimpundu and Nzayisenga won gold medal at the 2017 CAVB Beach Volleyball Cup in Maputo, Mozambique in May, which qualified them to the World Championships that was staged in Vienna, Austria in August where they unfortunately lost all their games.

In 2012, the duo, playing at the junior level, won gold at the Africa Championships in Togo but failed to participate in the World Championships in Canada after the hosts denied the Rwandan team entry visas.

Source: The New Times.

Nk’uko kubungabunga ibidukikije biri mu ntego za Komite Mpuzamahanga y’imikino Olempike “CIO” yahamagariye inzego zose za siporo by’umwihariko Komite Olempike ya buri gihugu kugena gahunda no gukora ubuvugizi bugamije kurwanya iyangirika ry’ibidukikije.

Abarimu ndetse n’abatoza b’imikino itandukanye y’abana bitabiriye amahugurw ku kubungabunga ibidukikije (Foto Bugingo F)

Ni muri urwo rwego Komite Olempike y’u Rwanda “CNOSR” kuva tariki 10 Ukwakira kugeza tariki 02 Ugushyingo 2017 yateguye gahunda y’ubukangurambaga burimo kwibanda ku biganiro n’ibikorwa bigamije kumenya ibyangiza ibidukikije n’uko byakwirindwa, kwita ku mazi, ikoreshwa neza ry’umuriro w’amashanyarazi, isuku n’isukura. Ubu bukangurambaga bukaba bubera mu kigo “Olympafrica” kiri mu Karere ka Nyanza.

Tariki 17 Ukwakira 2017 hahuguwe ikiciro cya kabiri cy’abarimu bo mu mashuri abanza n’ayisumbuye ndetse n’abatoza batandukanye bo mu karere ka Nyanza.

Nsengimana Aimable usanzwe ari umuyobozi mu karere ka Nyanza ushinzwe amashyamba n’umutungo Kamere akaba ari we watanze amahugurwa yagaragaje ko siporo ihura n’ibidukije cyane kuko abitabira siporo igihe cyose baba bategerejweho umusaruro mwiza. Aha yatanze urugero ati “Niba ikirere kitameze neza biragoye kubwira uwiruka ngo yiruke hatari umwuka mwiza, nta watanga umusaruro adakorera ahantu heza”.

Yakomeje avuga ko ukora siporo agomba kubona amazi meza ko abantu bakora siporo bagomba kumenya uko ayo mazi ava n’uko abungabungwa. Avuga ko bahugura aba bantu mu ngeri zitandukanye kugira ngo bagire uruhare rwo kubungabunga ibidukije.

Umwe mu bahuguwe, Mbugira Ismael usanzwe ari umutoza w’ikipe y’ingimbi ya Rayon Sports ibarizwa i Nyanza yavuze ko yatangiye atabyumva neza ariko ko yasanze bikenewe. Ati “Abana twirirwana na bo hari icyo bakwiye gukora mu kubungabunga ibidukikije”. Yakomeje avuga ko hari ibintu byinshi bajyaga birengagiza nk’amazi n’ibindi ariko ko babigishije uburyo abungabungwa. Mbugira kandi avuga ko ibigo bitorezagaho usanga nta biti bihari kandi bizana umwuka mwiza bikaba byafasha abana kuruhuka ndetse no kukurikira neza ibyo bigishwa n’abatoza akaba yariyemeje ko agiye gusaba abantu bose bafite aho abana bitoreza kuhatera ibiti.

Mbere y’abarimu n’abatoza batandukanye, habanje guhugurwa abakuru b’imidugugu. Nsengimana yavuze ko aba ari bo bashyira mu bikorwa ibintu byose kandi bizeye ko bazaba umusemburo. Ikiciro cya nyuma giteganyijwe tariki 31 Ukwakira kugeza 02 Ugushyingo 2017 ahazaguhurwa abana.

Muri rusange iyi gahunda izarangira hahuguwe abantu 260 aho bagomba kujya gusangiza imiryango yabo aho batuye no mu bandi bahura na bo mu buzima bwa buri munsi, ubumenyi bungutse mu kubungabunga ibidukikije.

Source: Imvaho Nshya.

Rwanda National Olympic and Sports Committee has launched a campaign aimed at helping local authorities acquire environmental education to deal with global warming, air pollution and many other ills that ruin the environment.

The campaign is an initiative of the International Olympic (IOC) through the Olympic Solidarity.

It started on October 10 but was officially launched on Thursday at Centre des Jeunes Olympafrica de Nyanza in Nyanza District, Southern Province, targeting over 260 people including 100 community leaders (50 men and 50 women) as well as sports administrators.

The second group will include 40 primary school teachers and 20 sports instructors, while the third group will comprise 100 secondary school students, who will be trained starting on October 30 until November 2.

The campaign will be carried out through education workshop sessions specifically educating them on how to protect the environment, improving water management, electricity consumption, and waste management.

In total 260 individuals will be trained.

RNOSC says the initiative aims to bring the public closer to nature through sports and also to raise awareness that sports and sports facilities can adversely affect the environment.

According to Felicite Rwemarika, RNOSC’s first vice president, sportsmen and women should embrace environmental protection as it is always hard for them to do their sports activities effectively without better environment.

“We decided to focus on training local leaders first because they interact with residents on a daily basis, and the next it will be school teachers because they reach pupils they teach and then we will train the youth, who are the strength and future of the country,” Rwemarika said.

She noted that the campaign is aimed at sensitising the communities about environmental issues through workshops conducted by environment experts.

Rwemarika further revealed that the initiative will be rolled out in other parts of the country after assessing its success in the pilot district of Nyanza.

“Forests are reducing and the culture of people to plant trees has reduced, we are encouraging them to understand the role of environmental protection as it is the pillar of sustainable development,” he said.

Source: The New Times

Saturday: Final
City Oilers 86-59 Patriots

Rwanda’s Patriots Basketball Club will have to wait another year for an attempt at winning the FIBA-Africa Zone V Club Championships.

Uganda’s City Oilers successfully defended the title after beating Patriots 86-59 in the final of this year’s tournament at Lugogo Indoor Arena in Kampala on Saturday evening.

However, Patriots’ head coach Henry Mwinuka has promised to comeback stronger next year.

“Obviously we are very disappointed but I hope next year, we will do better and go a step further. The competition is getting tougher every other year, next year we need to put in more effort,” Mwinuka said after Saturday’s defeat.

The Tanzanian trainer admitted that, “The game was hard for sure. My guys were tired. Most of our shots were off all night. We tried our best but failed.”

“Last year, we lost in the semi-finals and this year we reached the final and if you look around, we did our best to win but City Oilers are a very good team,” he explained.

City Oilers point-guard, Jordin Mayers was the star of the game, putting up 21 points while Adarius Pegues hit 14 points and 13 rebounds. Mayes was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP).

From the start, City Oilers showed that they were determined to defend their title when they went 8-0 in the lead but Patriots too showed that they were not ready to go down easily and ended the first quarter 22-20 down.

Amidst cheers from the home crowd, the defending champions scored 26 points and restricted their opponents to 18 points in the second quarter to take a 10 point lead at the break; 48-38.

Patriots looked to be clueless with everything going wrong for their side as star players Kami Kabange and Hamza Ruhezamihigo continued to fire blanks and eventually trailed by 18 points going into the last 10 minutes.

In the last quarter, the Oilers slowed the game’s tempo as Patriots looked helpless allowing the opponents to score 17 points before sealing off an 86-59 victory. Patriots’ Aristide Mugabe and Elie Kaje collected 17 and 11 points respectively.

City Oilers will once again represent the Zone V at the 2017 FIBA-Africa Club Championships.

In the semi-finals, City Oilers held off KPA 73-65, while Patriots beat the other Ugandan side Betway Power with Kabange and Walter Nkurunziza leading the way with 17 points each.

Two Patriots players, Mugabe and Kabange were named on the team of the tournament—others were; Mayes (Oilers), Stanley Ocitti (Oilers) and Betway Power’s Mike Makiadi.

Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) also retained the women’s title after winning all their 6 games of the competition.

Equity (Kenya) finished second while home favourites Uganda Christian University (UCU) finished third. Rwanda’s APR finished in the 5th position ahead of Don Bosco of Tanzania and Horseed of Somalia.

Source: The New Times Rwanda.

Saturday
AS Kigali 4-0 ES Mutunda

AS Kigali Women Football Club head coach Shaban Mbarushimana has praised his players after winning a record-extending 9th women’ league title on Saturday.

Mbarushimana’s team defeated ES Mutunda 4-0 in the final game of the season played at Kigali Stadium in Nyamirambo, to crown off the campaign with an unbeaten record.

Striker Calixte Iradukunda scored a hat-trick while Florence Imanizabayo netted the fourth goal as the City of Kigali-sponsored side registered a 14th successive league match.

“I am very happy for sure. My players deserve credit because they have done exceptionally well throughout the season. They gave everything to win the league and here we’re champions with unbeaten record,” Mbarushimana said after Saturday’s victory.

He added that, “It is something special for us as new coaches, we came in to win and we did it in the first season, hopefully, we will keep the winning spirit next season.”

Mbarushimana replaced long-serving Grace Nyinawumuntu, who was sacked in March having led the club to eight consecutive league titles.

The game was initially supposed to be played last month before being postponed as both teams’ players’ engagement in the regional inter-schools games, which were staged in Uganda.

AS Kigali won all their 14 matches, scoring 82 goals and conceding only four goals, while ES Mutunda finished in second place with 29 points from 9 wins, two draws and three losses.

Iradukunda finished the season as top scorer with 22 goals.

Kamonyi finished in third spot with 27 points; Rambura in fourth slot with 22 points; Inyemera fifth with 17 points; Bugesera sixth with 13 points, while Gakenke and Nyagatare were 7th and 8th with six and four points respectively.

Source: The New Times Rwanda.