{"id":182926,"date":"2024-10-20T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-caf-releases-new-statement-on-libya-vs-nigeria-afcon-qualifier-debacle\/"},"modified":"2024-10-20T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T10:35:08","slug":"nigeria-libya-caf-releases-new-statement-on-libya-vs-nigeria-afcon-qualifier-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-caf-releases-new-statement-on-libya-vs-nigeria-afcon-qualifier-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Libya: CAF Releases New Statement On Libya Vs Nigeria Afcon Qualifier Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Contrary to initial reports suggesting a potential walkover, CAF announced that the match will not take place as scheduled<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederation of African Football<\/a><\/strong> (CAF) has issued a new statement regarding the controversy surrounding the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Libya and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Contrary to initial reports suggesting a potential walkover, CAF announced that the match will not take place as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to CAF, &#8220;The TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410160045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to initial reports suggesting a potential walkover, CAF announced that the match will not take place as scheduled The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has issued a new statement regarding the controversy surrounding the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Libya and Nigeria. Contrary to initial reports suggesting a potential walkover, CAF announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[9488,258,256,3742,13015,4711,892,257,4687,18235,8496,5746,254,6065],"class_list":["post-182926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-debacle","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerialibya","tag-qualifier","tag-releases","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}