Africa: Match Facts – Tunisia and Algeria Clash in Historic North African Derby

Tunisia and Algeria meet for the first time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in a Group B encounter at the Père Jégo Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday (Kick-off: 17:00 local time / 16:00 GMT).

This is the first-ever WAFCON meeting between two North African nations that share a border – Tunisia and Algeria are separated by a 1,034-kilometre boundary stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sahara Desert.

It is only the second WAFCON fixture between North African…