{"id":99432,"date":"2025-04-15T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-to-host-u16-afrobasket-2025"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:38:05","slug":"rwanda-to-host-u16-afrobasket-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rwanda-to-host-u16-afrobasket-2025","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda to host U16 Afrobasket 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda will host the FIBA U16 Africa Basketball Championship (Afrobasket) 2025 which is due in September, world basketball governing body (FIBA) announced.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which will unfold from September 2-14, will feature 12 teams \u2014both boys and girls\u2014 from accross the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams will automatically qualify for the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cups in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five editions, the tournament has delivered unforgettable drama, unexpected heroes and a fiercely contested balance of power between West and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This is the ninth edition of the biennial FIBA U16 AfroBasket. The most recent edition that took place in 2023 was won by Guinea who beat Egypt 84-76 to claim their first-ever youth championship in Monastir, Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s journey in the 2023 FIBA Africa U16 boys&#8217; championship ended in the quarterfinals after they were eliminated by Egypt. They concluded the campaign with a fifth-place finish which they achieved after beating Co\u0302te d\u2019Ivoire 74-62 in the classification match.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rwanda&#8217;s U16 girls&#8217; team finished in 7th place after beating Guinea 54-43.<\/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. Rwanda will host the FIBA U16 Africa Basketball Championship (Afrobasket) 2025 which is due in September, world basketball governing body (FIBA) announced. The tournament, which will unfold from September 2-14, will feature 12 teams \u2014both boys and girls\u2014 from accross the continent. The top two teams will automatically qualify for the FIBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":99431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[7244,758],"class_list":["post-99432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-fiba-u16-afrobasket","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>Rwanda to host U16 Afrobasket 2025 - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-to-host-u16-afrobasket-2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rwanda to host U16 Afrobasket 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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