2007 Women's African Volleyball Championship

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.

Originally planned to be hosted by Uganda, the tournament changed hosts on 9 August 2007, when the CAVB announced Kenya as the hosts due to Uganda's venue not being ready in time for the tournament. Nairobi was selected as the city

Kenya won the championship defeating Algeria in the final, while Tunisia defeated Egypt to finish third.

Competing nations
The following national teams have confirmed participation:



Format
The tournament is played in two stages. In the first stage, the participants are divided in two groups. A single round-robin format is played within each group to determine the teams' group position (as per procedure below). The top two teams in each group advance to the second stage, the remaining teams finish the tournament ranked (5th to 10th) according to the pool standing procedure (below).

In the second stage, the two best teams of each group progress to the semifinals, winners advance to the final and losers advance to the third place match.

Pool standing procedure

 * 1) Match points (win = 2 points, loss = 1 point)
 * 2) Number of matches won
 * 3) Sets ratio
 * 4) Points ratio

Pool composition
The drawing of lots was held in Nairobi, Kenya on 4 September.

Group stage

 * All times are East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).

Final round

 * All times are East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).

Final standing
Tournament winner qualify for the 2007 FIVB World Cup.

Source: CAVB.

Awards

 * MVP
 * 🇰🇪 Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba
 * Best setter
 * 🇰🇪 Janet Wanja
 * Best receiver
 * Nawal Mansouri
 * Best digger
 * 🇰🇪 Milderd Odwako
 * Best scorer
 * 🇹🇳 Nihel Ghoul
 * Best spiker
 * Faïza Tsabet
 * Best blocker
 * 🇪🇬 Ingy El-Shamy
 * Best server
 * Mouni Abderrahim

Source: CAVB.