African Cycling

Live Blog: Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay

March 28, 2025

Welcome to our live blog to chart the progress of the #TeamTrhas project in the United Kingdom, on which we are working with Trhas, the West London Welcome community center and many of our friends and contacts across the cycling…

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2025 Contracts Tracker – African Riders

March 28, 2025

Alongside our development work, it is vital we at Africa Rising Cycling always talk about and promote the many African riders riding in the professional peloton. These men and women are the inspirations for the next generation of talent from…

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Benin Cycling’s Head Coach Adrien Niyonshuti Heads to UCI For Continued Coaching Education

March 26, 2025

From 4-14 March, Rwandan Adrien Niyonshuti was in Aigle (Switzerland) – home of the UCI’s World Cycling Centre – to attend the UCI’s Level Two Coaching Course for two weeks. For background, Adrien is Rwanda’s most successful professional cyclist in…

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From Cyclists to Commissaires – The St John’s College and Academy Cycling Group

March 25, 2025

Initiated by the then 13-year old William Mills as an outreach programme for disadvantaged boys from inner city Johannesburg, the St Johns College and Academy Cycling Group is, six years later, developing a new skillset, this time learning to how…

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2025 Is A Go For The African Female Riders on the CANYON SRAM Generation Team!

March 21, 2025

After watching their senior colleagues on the World Tour team from the sidelines, it’s finally time for the CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto Generation Team to embark on their 2025 racing season!

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Africa Rising CEO Kimberly Coats Recognised in Two Major International Women’s Day 2025 Publications

March 10, 2025

It has been quite a week for Team Africa Rising’s CEO Kimberly Coats around International Women’s Day 2025. She has been named as one of the key women in world cycling in TWO major media reports by Cycling News and…

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Tour du Rwanda #FromThePaddock Live Blog

March 3, 2025

Welcome to our live #FromThePaddock blog here at the 2025 Tour du Rwanda, in central Africa! We will be sharing content in real time across our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, BlueSky, LinkedIn) so please do give these…

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Team is Team: Gasore & Adrien

March 1, 2025

Gasore Hategeka was one of the first members of the post original five members of Team Rwanda Cycling. Gasore was the beginning of Team Rwanda 2.0. I remember the day he showed up to the Team House in Musanze, long…

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New UCI WCC Regional Development Satellite launched in Rwanda

February 25, 2025

The UCI World Cycling Centre (WCC) officially inaugurated its UCI WCC Regional Development Satellite in Rwanda this week. The ceremony took place at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, shortly before the start of the Tour du Rwanda prologue in the…

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Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme (CAC) Elections – 16 February 2025

February 14, 2025

As delegates from up to 54 African nations head to Egypt for the 2025 Confédération Africaine de Cyclisme (“CAC”) congress this weekend, is it time for a change at the top…. CAC is the over-arching regional federation of all African…

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