{"id":189872,"date":"2025-01-28T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-afcon-2025-holders-ivory-coast-to-face-cameroon-uganda-draws-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:23:29","slug":"africa-afcon-2025-holders-ivory-coast-to-face-cameroon-uganda-draws-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-afcon-2025-holders-ivory-coast-to-face-cameroon-uganda-draws-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Holders Ivory Coast to Face Cameroon, Uganda Draws Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Uganda, returning to the biannual tournament after two showings in 2017 and 2019 was interrupted by a dip, were in their best form in the qualifiers under Belgian tactician Paul Put.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Uganda has alongside giants Nigeria and Tunisia as well as neighbours Tanzania in Group C of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Holders Ivory Coast have drawn Cameroon in Group F following the draw at a glittering ceremony in Rabat, Morocco. The Elephants will also face Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang&#8217;s Gabon and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda, returning to the biannual tournament after two showings in 2017 and 2019 was interrupted by a dip, were in their best form in the qualifiers under Belgian tactician Paul Put. Uganda has alongside giants Nigeria and Tunisia as well as neighbours Tanzania in Group C of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon). Holders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651743:3eaeae8234b68664757355f28a932c60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,4698,377,6560,13650,7127,22651,6559,257,4687,254,4707],"class_list":["post-189872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-coast","tag-draws","tag-face","tag-holders","tag-ivory","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651743:3eaeae8234b68664757355f28a932c60:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189872","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=189872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}