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Live Blog: Road To The Cycling World Championships #Africa2025

By TAR Editorial Team | June 23, 2025

With Africa hosting the UCI Cycling Road World Championships in 2025 for the first time in September in Kigali (22-28th, Rwanda), we are launching this new Africa Rising Live Blog to report on key moments and developments in the build-up…

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2025 Contracts & Transfers Tracker – African Riders (Men & Women)

By Jeremy Ford | June 23, 2025

Alongside our grass-roots 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…

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Live Blog: African Women’s Cycling

By TAR Editorial Team | June 22, 2025

Welcome to our Live Blog / News Service on all things African women’s cycling! We will try and capture all breaking news, key developments, race results, and anything else we think you will enjoy reading… June 2025 22 June: This…

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Team Africa Rising Newsletter: Benin Women Heading to the Maryland Cycling Classic

By TAR Editorial Team | June 19, 2025

We mentioned a few weeks back that we had some BIG, BIG news… and today we deliver! And there couldn’t be a better day than June 19th – ‘Juneteenth’ – to make this announcement. Today, we commemorate the ending of…

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Blog: Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay

By Jeremy Ford | June 16, 2025

Welcome to our 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 industry:…

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The Rise of Maekele: Eritrean wins Stage One of Tour of Iran!

By Jeremy Ford | May 27, 2025

The 19yo wonder-kid Milkias Maekele from Eritrea wins the opening stage of the Tour of Iran (Azarbaijan) for his team BIKE AID, takes his third victory of 2025, has his ‘Pro’ win (2.1 and above) and first day tomorrow in…

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Team Africa Rising Newsletter: Is Benin Cycling the Next African Powerhouse?

By Kimberly Coats | May 24, 2025

The 2025 Tour du Benin was a resounding success. News continues to spread about the race and the work being led by the President of the Benin Cycling Federation. The Tour du Benin grows in notoriety and level each year.…

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#FromThePaddock – Tour du Bénin 2025

By Jeremy Ford | May 4, 2025

We are excited to bring our #FromThePaddock series back to life, this time from the very warm Bénin, in West Africa – ahead of the start on Monday 28 April of the 2025 Tour du Bénin. We will update this…

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Ezer Mensah: Leading the Next Generation of Benin Cyclists

By Kimberly Coats | April 30, 2025

On Monday, at the opening stage of the 20th Annual Tour du Benin, 27-year-old Ezer Mensah was the highest-ranked Benin finisher, coming across the line in 13th place. Ezer is also on the upper end of the sport’s age range. He will…

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BBC Africa: Can new wave of African cyclists produce ‘second Girmay’?

By Jeremy Ford | April 24, 2025

Milkias Maekele may look young for a professional cyclist, but the 19-year-old already has the confident air of a champion. Following victory in a one-day race in Algeria this year, the Eritrean sprinter is drawing comparisons with a compatriot who…

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