{"id":115697,"date":"2025-11-18T19:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/gahuranyi-appointed-ferwaba-new-executive-director-2"},"modified":"2025-11-18T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:50:02","slug":"gahuranyi-appointed-ferwaba-new-executive-director-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gahuranyi-appointed-ferwaba-new-executive-director-2","title":{"rendered":"Gahuranyi appointed Ferwaba new Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA) has appointed Franc\u0327ois-Re\u0301gis Gahuranyi as its new Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>Gahuranyi, who previously served as Executive Director of the Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY), replaces Fionah Ishimwe, who held the position for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Having played basketball in Rwanda and outside the country, Gahuranyi is not new to the sport. He played for several clubs throughout his career, beginning with National University of Rwanda (NUR) from 2007 to 2008. In 2009, he featured for Cercle Sportif de Kigali (CSK).<\/p>\n<p>From 2010 to 2011, he competed in Uganda\u2019s National Basketball League with the Falcons Basketball Club, before joining Ndejje University, for which he played between 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>After three years in Uganda, he returned to Kigali and signed with United Generations Basketball (UGB), where he played until his retirement in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. The Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA) has appointed Franc\u0327ois-Re\u0301gis Gahuranyi as its new Executive Director. Gahuranyi, who previously served as Executive Director of the Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY), replaces Fionah Ishimwe, who held the position for the past three years. Having played basketball in Rwanda and outside the country, Gahuranyi is not new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":115696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[3347,8733,758],"class_list":["post-115697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-ferwaba","tag-francois-regis-gahuranyi","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gahuranyi appointed Ferwaba new Executive Director - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rwanda Basketball Federation (FERWABA) has appointed Franc\u0327ois-Re\u0301gis Gahuranyi as its new Executive Director. 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