{"id":53993,"date":"2025-04-22T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/regional-basketball-giants-to-grace-the-genocide-memorial-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:55:45","slug":"regional-basketball-giants-to-grace-the-genocide-memorial-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/regional-basketball-giants-to-grace-the-genocide-memorial-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional basketball giants to grace the Genocide memorial tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament, which honors players, coaches, and fans of the sport, is being organized as Rwanda and the world mark the 31st commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to take place from April 23 to April 27, 2025, at Petit Stade in Kigali, the competition will include both men\u2019s and women\u2019s matches.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the invited regional teams, the tournament will feature Rwandan clubs such as APR BBC, REG BBC, Patriots BBC, and UGB in the men\u2019s category, while Kepler WBBC, REG WBBC, APR WBBC, and East Africa University Rwanda will compete in the women\u2019s division.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 23, Patriots BBC will face off with UGB at 6:30pm, followed by a clash between REG BBC and Kenya Ports Authority at 9:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s category, Kepler WBBC will play KPA, while East Africa University Rwanda will meet REG WBBC. Both matches are set for 4:00pm at NPA and Petit Stade.<\/p>\n<p>All the invited teams are dominant in their home countries and have won multiple championships, including national league titles. Last year\u2019s edition of the tournament was won by APR in both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86228 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/since_it_s_thursday_humans_forget_but_trophies_don_t__tujikumbushe_kwa_wale_wasahaulifu__darcityteam_leteballjuu_leteballchini_leteballkokote_2024_basketball_mzenjii_darcitybasketball_da.jpg\" alt=\"Dar City from is a basketball powerhouse in Tanzania.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86229 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic-154.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) basketball club is set to participate in the tournament.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86230 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic_1-295.jpg\" alt=\"Uganda\u2019s JKL Dolphins will take part in a special basketball tournament held in remembrance of members of the basketball community who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-86231 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic_2-204.jpg\" alt=\"In the women\u2019s category, KPA will kickoff with a game against Kepler WBBC .\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Dar City from Tanzania, and Uganda\u2019s JKL Dolphins will take part in a special basketball tournament held in remembrance of members of the basketball community who were killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000086227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000086227,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-594.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53993","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53993"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53993"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}