The African Volleyball Confederation is the continental governing body for the sports of volleyball in Africa. Its headquarters are located in Rabat, Morocco.
Sports in Morocco refers to the sports played in the Kingdom of Morocco. As of 2007, Moroccan society participated in many sports, including handball, football, golf, tennis, basketball, and athletics. Hicham El Guerrouj, a retired middle distance runner for Morocco, won two gold medals for Morocco at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
The 2007 Women's African Nations Championship was the 13th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship organised by Africa's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball (CAVB). It was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 5 to 11 September 2007.
The 2013 Women's African Nations Championship was the 16th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship organised by Africa's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball. It was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 14 to 19 September 2013. The winner qualified for the 2014 World Grand Prix.
The Tunisian Volleyball Federation (French: Fédération tunisienne de volley-ball) (FTVB) (Arabic: الجامعة التونسية للكرة الطائرة), is the governing body for Volleyball in Tunisia since 1956. The federation is a member of the Arab Volleyball Association, Mediterranean volleyball Confederation, African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) and the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). The president of FTVB is Abdelmajid Jrad.
Egypt competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1912, Egyptian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except 1932 and 1980, joining the United States-led boycott in the latter.
The Men's U23 African Volleyball Championship is a sport competition for national teams with players under 23 years, held biannually and organized by the African Volleyball Confederation.
The 2015 Women's African Nations Championship was the 17th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship organised by Africa's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball. It was held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 12 to 20 June 2015. The top two team qualified for the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup.
Carmen-Alida Cioroianu Marcovici is a retired Romanian female volleyball player, who played as a middle blocker.
Celenia Toribio De León is a Dominican Republic female volleyball player. With her club Mirador Santo Domingo she competed at the 2011 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.
Petya Barakova is a Bulgarian volleyball player, playing as a setter. She is part of the Bulgaria women's national volleyball team.
Camila Gómez is a Colombian volleyball player for the Grand Rapids Rise of the Pro Volleyball Federation and the Colombia women's national volleyball team.
Aya El Shamy is an Egyptian female volleyball player. She was part of the Egypt women's national volleyball team.
Rosamaria Montibeller is a Brazilian volleyball player. She usually plays as an opposite spiker and occasionally as a wing spiker. A part of Brazil women's national volleyball team ever since winning silver at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, she has since won two medals in the Olympic Games, silver in Tokyo 2020 and bronze in Paris 2024.
Nada Meawad is an Egyptian indoor and beach volleyball player, a member of the Egypt women's national volleyball team. She made her international debut when she was 15 years old on the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Thailand. She started playing in El Shams Club at the age of five years old. Nada Meawad and her teammate Doaa Elghobashy were the first ever African team to take part in the FIVB beach volleyball Olympic Games in 2016. She is a Five-time AVCA First Team All-American and Three-time NAIA Player of the Year 2018, 2020 and 2021 while playing college volleyball at Park University.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2017 throughout the world.
The 2017 Women's African Nations Championship was the 18th edition of the Women's African Volleyball Championship organised by Africa's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Africaine de Volleyball. Held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the tournament took place from 7 to 14 October 2017. The top two teams, who had registered with FIVB for the 2018 World Championship, qualify to represent Africa in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.
Gergana Dimitrova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria. She currently plays for Bulgaria as an outside hitter.
Antonela Fortuna is an Argentine volleyball player, who plays as an outside hitter at Hungarian club Újpesti TE and the Argentina women's national volleyball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The 2016 Women's U23 African Volleyball Championship was the 2nd edition of the Women's U23 African Volleyball Championship, it was held 20 to 27 October 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. The tournament was organized by the African Volleyball Confederation, in association with Kenya Volleyball Association.
