{"id":201653,"date":"2025-07-05T01:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-match-facts-algeria-botswana-clash-in-group-b-showdown-in-casablanca\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T01:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T23:56:49","slug":"africa-match-facts-algeria-botswana-clash-in-group-b-showdown-in-casablanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-match-facts-algeria-botswana-clash-in-group-b-showdown-in-casablanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Match Facts &#8211; Algeria, Botswana Clash in Group B Showdown in Casablanca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Algeria take on Botswana in their opening Group B match at the TotalEnergies Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024. The match is scheduled for Sunday at the P\u00e8re J\u00e9go Stadium in Casablanca (kick-off 20:00 local time \/ 19:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Algeria begin their sixth appearance at the WAFCON with a first-ever finals meeting against Botswana, who are competing in their second tournament. This is Algeria&#8217;s third match at the finals against a team from Southern Africa, having previously faced South&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040575.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria take on Botswana in their opening Group B match at the TotalEnergies Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024. The match is scheduled for Sunday at the P\u00e8re J\u00e9go Stadium in Casablanca (kick-off 20:00 local time \/ 19:00 GMT). Algeria begin their sixth appearance at the WAFCON with a first-ever finals meeting against Botswana, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201654,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4705,4718,2462,17931,7647,15730,5192,8778,257,11502,254],"class_list":["post-201653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-casablanca","tag-clash","tag-facts","tag-group","tag-match","tag-news","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/201653","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}