{"id":202023,"date":"2025-07-09T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-match-facts-tunisia-and-algeria-clash-in-historic-north-african-derby\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T18:26:14","slug":"africa-match-facts-tunisia-and-algeria-clash-in-historic-north-african-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-match-facts-tunisia-and-algeria-clash-in-historic-north-african-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Match Facts &#8211; Tunisia and Algeria Clash in Historic North African Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>Tunisia and Algeria meet for the first time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in a Group B encounter at the P\u00e8re J\u00e9go Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday (Kick-off: 17:00 local time \/ 16:00 GMT).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">This is the first-ever WAFCON meeting between two North African nations that share a border &#8211; Tunisia and Algeria are separated by a 1,034-kilometre boundary stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sahara Desert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">It is only the second WAFCON fixture between North African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090538.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>Tunisia and Algeria meet for the first time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in a Group B encounter at the P\u00e8re J\u00e9go Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday (Kick-off: 17:00 local time \/ 16:00 GMT). This is the first-ever WAFCON meeting between two North African nations that share a border &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202024,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,4380,4705,7647,8833,15730,13203,8778,257,6732,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-202023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-algeria","tag-clash","tag-derby","tag-facts","tag-historic","tag-match","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/202023","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=202023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}