{"id":189996,"date":"2025-01-30T01:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/uganda-tanzania-2025-afcon-nigeria-draw-tunisia-tanzania-uganda-in-group-c\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:29:53","slug":"uganda-tanzania-2025-afcon-nigeria-draw-tunisia-tanzania-uganda-in-group-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/uganda-tanzania-2025-afcon-nigeria-draw-tunisia-tanzania-uganda-in-group-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\/Tanzania: 2025 Afcon &#8211; Nigeria Draw Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda in Group C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Three-time African champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have been drawn in Group C for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled for December 22 to January 18, 2026, in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Finalists at the last edition in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Nigeria will tread tackles against former AFCON winners the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia, the Taifa of Tanzania and the Cranes of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">As hosts of the AFCON for the first time ever, in 1980, the Eagles battled the Taifa Stars in the tournament opening match,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501290489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time African champions, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have been drawn in Group C for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled for December 22 to January 18, 2026, in Morocco. Finalists at the last edition in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Nigeria will tread tackles against former AFCON winners the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia, the Taifa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189997,"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":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,6981,5192,257,4687,254,746,4703,653,4707,41098],"class_list":["post-189996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-draw","tag-group","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-uganda","tag-ugandatanzania"],"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\/189996","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=189996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}