The one day event is held to commemorate the 1994 genocide in which around one million Tutsi people are estimated to have been killed.

Around 120 athletes are due to participate across male, female and Para-taekwondo divisions.

Rwandan newspaper The New Times report that the event is due to take place outside of capital Kigali for the first time.

Rwanda Taekwondo Federation secretary general Boniface Mbonigaba said the competition has been moved because the Petit Stade in Kigali will be undergoing renovation in June.

"We limited the number of participants to 120 for two main reasons," he added, according to The New Times.

"One, because it will be taking place out of Kigali, and secondly, because we wanted to give a chance to fans of the sport in other parts of the country to watch it."

Teams from Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are also expected to compete, as well as refugee teams from Mahama and Kiziba camps.

The genocide started on April 7 in 1994, following the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira the day before, after their plane was shot down.

The death of Habyarimana ended a ceasefire which halted the Rwandan civil war a year earlier, as well as sparking killings of the Tutsi people by the Hutu-led Government.

Genocide continued until mid-July in 1994 when it was brought to an end by the Rwandan Patriotic Front who took control of the country.

As well as the estimated total of one million Tutsi deaths, a further two million are believed to have been displaced as refugees.