THE MINISTER of Sports and Culture, Joseph Habineza, has urged other national sports federations and associations to learn from their counterparts of volleyball and cycling on how to promote young players.

"It is good to have many young players competing on high level, when I was here [previously spell as sports minister], I didn’t see many of young players coming through, but by now I can see so many in cycling and volleyball,” the minister noted during new briefing held recently.

He added: "But they (cycling and volleyball federations) have to continue working even harder so that we have our senior teams on top in Africa. However, other federations need to follow the example of these two so that at least the country is well represented in every sport.”

"I am happy with what cycling and volleyball are doing because they have shown interest to promote young players; which is something we are working on but we have to continue working hard in every sport. Rwanda needs to be doing well in international competitions.”

The minister also emphasized that his ministry has set itself a target to promote 300 young talents around the country each year.

Two years ago, the government announced that the country had set a target of being in the top three on the continent in both basketball and volleyball by the 2017.