This year's Barthes Cup takes place in Nairobi from April 4-7. The tournament is Rugby Africa's official U-20 championship. It pits four teams competing for the overall title and with it, qualification to the World Rugby U-20 Trophy.

Namibia have been the perennial winners of this tournament. They come to Nairobi with one thing on their mind: to retain the Barthes Cup and once again represent Africa at the world stage.

Kenya will seek a new beginning having lost the last three finals to Namibia and will look to point to the reducing margins of defeat as a well as a larger talent pool as reasons to believe they can challenge for the title and return to the world junior rugby tournament in 2009.

Tunisia and Senegal will play in Nairobi by virtue of reaching last year's second tier Africa U-20 final, a fixture that saw the North Africans secure a 11-8 win in extra time over their West African opponents.

Little is known of the two sides at the U-20 level but they will certainly be in Nairobi, not to make up the numbers, but to compete and rattle the status quo.

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