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For the young players arriving in Cairo, the championship is not only about winning matches. It is also about learning how to handle a bigger stage. Ahead of the All Africa U-19 Championships 2026, the Badminton Confederation of Africa, in close collaboration with the Egyptian Badminton Federation, is organising a Youth Training Camp for Under-19 players on 25…
Long before the young players walk into the Cairo Stadium Indoor Hall, another important part of the All Africa U-19 Championships 2026 is already taking place. From 24 to 26 September, 12 referees from across Africa have gathered in Cairo for the BCA Referees Workshop, preparing for the Junior Mixed Team and Junior Individual Championships…
We are pleased to announce the opening for the position of Temporary Finance and Administration Manager at the BCA Sports Foundation and are seeking a suitably qualified and experienced candidate for the position. This is a full-time, fixed-term temporary appointment intended to ensure continuity of BCA’s finance and administrative functions during the leave of the…
The competition may have ended, but the work on the sand continued. Just one day after the Africa AirBadminton Championships came to a close in Entebbe, coaches and players from across Africa returned to the courts for another important chapter in the development of the sport. From 20 to 22 September, the BWF-BCA AirBadminton Training Camp brought…
After four days of intense competition on the sand at Aero Beach, the Africa AirBadminton Championships 2026 reached its final chapter on 19 September, with five individual titles decided in Entebbe. The finals brought together players who had survived the pressure of the knockout stages, with several encounters going down to the wire. In the Men’s…
The men’s doubles competition reached the point where there was no room left for a quiet finish. On 19 September at Aero Beach, the quarter-finals and semi-finals brought long rallies, changing momentum and some very close games as the remaining pairs fought for a place in the final. Benin’s Oswald Fano-Dosh and Carlos Kpanou had…
By the morning of 19 September, the individual competition had reached the stage where every match carried a little more weight. The quarter-finals were no longer about simply staying in the tournament. For the players on the sand at Aero Beach, victory meant moving within one match of a final. The men’s triples produced one…
There was little separating the leading mixed doubles pairs on 19 September. By the time the semi-finals arrived at Aero Beach, the remaining players had already been through the pressure of the knockout rounds, and one more difficult match stood between them and the final. Uganda’s Denis Mukasa and Gladys Mbabazi found themselves in another…
The women’s triples competition took another important step towards its final on 19 September, with the quarter-finals and semi-finals bringing very different stories for the teams still chasing a place in the title match. Mauritius began the day with a quarter-final against Burkina Faso. G. Ancharaz, Savoo P and K. Dookhee knew that a place…
The women’s doubles competition moved into the Round of 16 at the Africa AirBadminton Championships, with the remaining pairs continuing their fight for a place in the quarter-finals at Aero Beach in Entebbe. Benin’s Anna Gladys Akakpo and Flora Kpogbemabou produced one of the strongest performances on Court 1, defeating Algeria’s E. Touati and I.…
