The South Sudan national basketball team was established in May 2011 and they became a member of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in December 2013. The Bright Stars made their first and only AfroBasket appearance in 2021 and they have also qualified for the 2023 FIBA World Cup hosted by The Philippines, Japan and Indonesia in August. South Sudan played its first unofficial match in Juba...
South Sudan got their first ever win in women's basketball with a 54-40 win over Rwanda in the FIBA Africa Zone 5 qualifiers for the 2023 Women's AfroBasket. View this post on Instagram A post shared by FIBA (@fiba) The qualifiers, which is underway at the MTN Arena in Kampala, have Egypt, Kenya, hosts Uganda, and the two aforementioned teams battling for a...
Rwanda official Salima Mukansanga is among the six female referees invited to officiate at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. A total of 36 referees from 29 countries for the 64 matches that will be between November 20 and December 18. Mukansanga joins Gambia's Bakary Gassama, South Africa's Victor Gomes, Senegal's Maguette N'Diaye and Zambia's Janny Sikazwe as Africa's representatives. When did Mukansanga become a...
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