{"id":184627,"date":"2024-11-15T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-updf-sets-sights-on-gold-at-africa-military-games-as-team-heads-to-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:17:29","slug":"africa-updf-sets-sights-on-gold-at-africa-military-games-as-team-heads-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-updf-sets-sights-on-gold-at-africa-military-games-as-team-heads-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: UPDF Sets Sights On Gold At Africa Military Games As Team Heads to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Uganda Peoples&#8217; Defence Forces (UPDF) are gearing up for a strong performance at the 2nd Africa Military Games in Abuja, Nigeria, with a 27-member team now officially on their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">This prestigious competition, which brings together top military athletes from across the continent, is seen as an opportunity for UPDF to showcase not only their athletic prowess but also their unity and commitment to African solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">At the flag-off ceremony held at the Land Force Headquarters in Bombo, Maj Gen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uganda Peoples&#8217; Defence Forces (UPDF) are gearing up for a strong performance at the 2nd Africa Military Games in Abuja, Nigeria, with a 27-member team now officially on their way. This prestigious competition, which brings together top military athletes from across the continent, is seen as an opportunity for UPDF to showcase not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6731,4644,8879,3318,257,4687,393,7123,19469,254,7142,1959],"class_list":["post-184627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-games","tag-gold","tag-heads","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sets","tag-sights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-updf"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184627","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}