Rwanda’s international basketball referee Jean Sauveur Ruhamiriza has been named among referees shortlisted to officiate the forthcoming Nile Conference games of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) which gets underway from April 9-19 at the Hassan Mostafa Indoor Sports Complex in Cairo, Egypt.

The 31-year-old departed for Cairo on Wednesday aboard Ethiopian Airlines flight.

Ruhamiriza officiated the inaugural season of the BAL held in Kigali last year.

He also officiated the FIBA Women’s U-19 World Cup in Debrecen, becoming the second Rwandan international referee to officiate a Basketball World Cup event after Didier Shema Maboko, the current Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sports.

The latter officiated the FIBA Men’s U-17 World Cup which took place in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2016.