{"id":199858,"date":"2025-06-09T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-bal-2025-al-ahli-tripoli-al-ittihad-secure-semifinals-ticket\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:25:50","slug":"libya-bal-2025-al-ahli-tripoli-al-ittihad-secure-semifinals-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-bal-2025-al-ahli-tripoli-al-ittihad-secure-semifinals-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya: Bal 2025 &#8211; Al Ahli Tripoli, Al Ittihad Secure Semifinals Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Egypt&#8217;s Al Ittihad and Libya&#8217;s Al Ahli Tripoli are the first two teams to secure the ticket to the semi-finals of the playoffs of Basketball Africa League (BAL) 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Al Ahli had to beat Cape Verde&#8217;s Kriol Star to advance to the semi-finals, while Al Ittihad overcame Morocco&#8217;s FUS Rabat in Pretoria, South Africa where the playoffs action is unfolding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/27075\/sports\/basketball\/bal-playoffs-apr-faces-rivers-hoopers-in-quarter-finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BAL playoffs: APR faces Rivers Hoopers in quarter-finals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">During Al Ahli&#8217;s encounter with Kriol Star, the Cape Verdean side did everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090279.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>Egypt&#8217;s Al Ittihad and Libya&#8217;s Al Ahli Tripoli are the first two teams to secure the ticket to the semi-finals of the playoffs of Basketball Africa League (BAL) 2025. Al Ahli had to beat Cape Verde&#8217;s Kriol Star to advance to the semi-finals, while Al Ittihad overcame Morocco&#8217;s FUS Rabat in Pretoria, South Africa where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,30431,38465,27892,4711,892,257,7904,14292,254,8346,897],"class_list":["post-199858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahli","tag-bal","tag-ittihad","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-secure","tag-semifinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticket","tag-tripoli"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199858","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=199858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}