Following the departure of Russian Karate expert, Ruslan Adamov, who has been training the national team for the past four years, four locals have been put in charge as interim coaches.

The four include; the Rwanda Karate Federation technical director, Guy Didier Rurangayire, Petit Ndushabandi (current coach of APR karate team) as well as two current senior members of the national team, Sylvestre Twajamahoro and Noel Nkuranyabahizi.

"I believe the four of us will do a good job. Every one of us has sufficient experience and we have all worked with Ruslan for the past four years,” Rurangayire said.

Rurangayire and Ndushabandi were members of the national team that first carried Rwanda’s flag to the World Championships in 2002. Late last year, Ndushabandi spent a week in Egypt on a coaching course.

Nkuranyabahizi, a Social Works graduate from the former National University of Rwanda, is a fulltime coach at Lionceaux as well as at Lions Karate-do, kids and adults clubs at Amahoro National stadium, and at the École Belge School, in Kigali.

Twajamahoro, coach of the Rwanda National Police team, is a Kata specialist who represented the country in many tournaments including the14th African Championships in Morocco in 2012, where he grabbed a bronze medal.