Biniam Girmay ukomoka mu Gihugu cya Eritrea ni we wabaye Umukinnyi w’umwaka muri Afurika mu mukino w’amagare muri 2025, mu bihembo byatangiwe i Kigali muri Zaria Court kuri uyu wa Gatandatu tariki 29 Ugushyingo 2025.
Biniam yatsinze bagenzi be bo muri Eritrea ari bo Henok Mulubrhan na Milkias Maekele bari baje mu batatu ba nyuma bahatanira iki gihembo.
Biniam utagaragaye i Kigali yavuze ko ashimira abateguye ibi bihembo ndetse abasaba ko bakomeza kugira umutima wo guteza imbere umukino w’amagare muri Afurika.
Mu cyiciro cy’Abagore, Kimberley Le Court ukomoka mu birwa bya Maurice yatsinze Gerefiel Selam Amha na Kahsay Tsige Kiros bombi bo muri Ethiopia, bakaba ari bo bari basigaye mu batatu ba nyuma bahatanira iki gihembo.
Mu bihembo byatanzwe kandi, hahembwe Paul Daumont wo muri Burkina Faso nk’Umukinnyi mwiza w’Umunyafurika wahize abandi mu batarabigize umwuga. Umunya-Uganda Charles Kagimu n’Umurundikazi Odette Nsengiyumva bahembwe nk’abakinnyi bahize abandi mu karere ka Afurika y’Uburasirazuba.
Mu Banyarwanda bahize abandi mu mwaka wa 2025, MASENGESHO Vainqueur waje imbere y’abandi Banyarwanda muri Tour du Rwanda 2025, ubu akaba akinira Benediction, ni we wahembwe mu cyiciro cy’abagabo, naho Xaverine Nirere ahembwa mu cyiciro cy’abagore.
Hahembwe kandi ikipe y’igihugu ya Eritrea nk’igihugu cyahize ibindi byose muri uyu mukino muri 2025.
Ni ku nshuro ya mbere ibi bihembo bitanzwe, bikaba byaraturutse ku gitekerezo cya Freddy Kamuzinzi wahoze ategura Tour du Rwanda, bigahabwa umugisha n’impuzamashyirahamwe y’umukino w’amagare muri Afurika (CAC).
Ibihembo bisa n’ibi byajyaga bitegurwa ndetse bigatangwa n’abategura irushanwa ryo gusiganwa ku magare rya La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, gusa kuva icyorezo cya Covid-19 cyaba, ibi bihembo ntibyongeye gutangwa.
Ibi bihembo bya Africa Cycling Excellence Awards byabaye ku nshuro ya mbere bikabera mu Rwanda, byanitabiriwe n’Umunyamabanga wa Leta muri Minisiteri ya Siporo Rwego Ngarambe wari umushyitsi mukuru. Mu bandi bitabiriye harimo Perezida wa CAC (The Confederation of African Cycling), Umunya-Côte d’Ivoire Dr. Yao Jean-Marie Allah-Kouamé.
Jean Claude HITIMANA
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