Rwanda’s national basketball team will take part in the upcoming qualifiers of the FIBA Afro-CAN tournament slated for Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from June 17-23.

Afro-CAN is a continental basketball tournament that focuses on promoting players that play in Africa. The competition allows national teams to summon a roster that comprises only two overseas-based players, while the rest of the ten should be based on the continent.

The qualifiers will determine the national teams that will participate in the Afro-CAN finals. The 12-nation competition will take place in the Angolan capital of Luanda between July 7 to 16.

Africa Zone 5 teams that will feature in the qualifiers include Burundi, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya (qualified), Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, and Tanzania, will compete for the only Final Round spot in Dar es Salaam from June 17-23.

Africa Zone 1 teams (Algeria, Libya and Tunisia) will play qualifiers from June 21-25 to determine the region's representative at the final round. The host country of this qualifier is yet to be determined.

The FIBA Afro-CAN returns this summer for the first time since 2019. The semi-finalists from the 2019 edition including champions DR Congo, runners-up Kenya as well third and fourth-placed Angola and Morocco (fourth-place) qualified automatically for this year's tournament.

The teams that have qualified for the tournament so far include Cameroon - winners of Zone 4 qualifiers and Mozambique, who clinched the top spot from Zone 6.