{"id":201407,"date":"2025-07-02T02:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-go-make-ghana-proud-sports-minister-charges-black-queens-ahead-of-wafcon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:40:47","slug":"ghana-go-make-ghana-proud-sports-minister-charges-black-queens-ahead-of-wafcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-go-make-ghana-proud-sports-minister-charges-black-queens-ahead-of-wafcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Go, Make Ghana Proud &#8230;Sports Minister Charges Black Queens Ahead of Wafcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Mr Kofi Adams, has urged the Black Queens, Ghana&#8217;s senior female football team, to be propelled by Ghana&#8217;s rich history of resilience in their quest for glory at the 2024 CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco on July 7-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Black Queens will open their campaign against South Africa on Monday, July 7 and be engaged in subsequent group matches against Mali on Friday, July 11 and Tanzania on Monday, July 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In achieving that, Mr Adams&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010683.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Sports and Recreation, Mr Kofi Adams, has urged the Black Queens, Ghana&#8217;s senior female football team, to be propelled by Ghana&#8217;s rich history of resilience in their quest for glory at the 2024 CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco on July 7-26. The Black Queens will open their campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201408,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7019,8561,7578,4508,4509,5941,257,10806,8370,254,8045,24869],"class_list":["post-201407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-charges","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-proud","tag-queens","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-wafcon"],"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\/201407","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=201407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}