{"id":35820,"date":"2017-09-14T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/2017-paravolley-africa-sitting-volleyball\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T08:11:33","slug":"2017-paravolley-africa-sitting-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/2017-paravolley-africa-sitting-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The 2017 ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships kicked off yesterday in  Kigali. The tournament, which runs from 13-17 September 2017, brings together seven African countries represented by four women\u2019s and seven men\u2019s sitting volleyball teams.}<\/p>\n<p>The competing teams are from; Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria and host Rwanda. Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, and Kenya brought both men\u2019s and women\u2019s sitting volleyball teams. South Africa, Morocco, and Algeria came with only men\u2019s teams. The teams are competing for the title of ParaVolley Africa champion.<\/p>\n<p>The top two men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams will automatically qualify for the 2018 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships to be held in July 2018 in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the opening of the Championships, the Minister of Sports and Culture Julienne Uwacu welcomed participants and expressed the country\u2019s gratitude to Para Volley Africa for entrusting Rwanda with hosting the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use sports as a means of social change, inclusion, and integration for persons with disabilities. In hosting this tournament, Rwanda reaffirms its commitment to promoting sports for all, with a special emphasis on sports for persons with disabilities,\u201d Minister Uwacu said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21705 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/21743292_1571820002880456_7362506871515649251_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The 2017 ParaVolley Africa Sitting Volleyball Championships kicked off yesterday in Kigali. The tournament, which runs from 13-17 September 2017, brings together seven African countries represented by four women\u2019s and seven men\u2019s sitting volleyball teams.} The competing teams are from; Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Morocco, Algeria and host Rwanda. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35820"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35820"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}