Beaten But Not Broken — Litto Team and Mayo Kani Eye Redemption in the Last 16

They came, they won, they wobbled. That, in short, is the story of Cameroon’s two representatives at the 2026 CAVB Women’s African Volleyball Club Championship in Cairo, where both Litto Team Volleyball and Mayo Kani Evolution signed off their group stage campaigns with defeats — yet still find themselves very much alive in the tournament.
It had been a promising start for both sides. Back-to-back victories in their opening matches had raised hopes that Cameroon could make a genuine statement on the continental stage this year. But the final round of group play proved a step too far, and two tough opponents were in no mood to be generous.

Litto Team ran into a well-drilled Kenya Commercial Bank side and were beaten 3-0, with the Kenyan outfit winning the sets 25-13, 25-22 and 25-23. There were moments of real quality, enough to suggest they are not here simply to make up the numbers.
Mayo Kani Evolution had the rather more daunting task of facing Al-Ahly, the Egyptian giants who, playing on home soil, carry the weight of expectation and the full force of a partisan Cairo crowd. It showed. The hosts swept through 3-0, taking the sets 25-21, 25-18 and 25-11, with the final set in particular telling its own story about the gulf in class — at least on the day.
Still, defeats in a group stage finale are not the end of the world when you have already done enough to qualify, and both Cameroonian clubs now turn their attention to the round of 16, where the knockout format changes everything.

Litto Team will face Senegal’s Sococim. Mayo Kani Evolution, meanwhile, draw Nigeria Customs Service.
Two very different tests. Two chances to prove that those early group stage wins were no fluke. All eyes now turn to Sunday the 19th of April, when the knockout rounds get underway across two halls in Cairo.