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Eritrea has cut itself a niche in African cycling as climbing experts and often enter any competition around the continent as favourites.

Eritrea’s set of five riders, for this year’s Tour du Rwanda is a confident lot,the team say they are ready not just to challenge for the mountain stages but also the overall title in the 2015 Tour du Rwanda .

Despite the challenges facing them, riders from Eritrea continue to trail blaze on Africa’s cycling circuit and internationally. Many of them living out a dream borne of a cycling culture in a country with a huge passion for the sport.