{"id":202475,"date":"2025-07-15T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-wafcon-2024-dr-congo-tunisia-tanzania-botswana-bow-out-with-grit-and-glory\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:22:01","slug":"africa-wafcon-2024-dr-congo-tunisia-tanzania-botswana-bow-out-with-grit-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-wafcon-2024-dr-congo-tunisia-tanzania-botswana-bow-out-with-grit-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Wafcon 2024 &#8211; DR Congo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Botswana Bow Out With Grit and Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">As the 2024 CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) enters the quarterfinal stage, four teams&#8211;DR Congo, Tunisia, Tanzania, and Botswana&#8211;exit the competition, but not without leaving a lasting impression through memorable performances and unwavering determination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>Botswana&#8217;s Comeback Falls Just Short<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Despite a spirited 2-1 comeback win against Tunisia, Botswana&#8217;s journey ended heartbreakingly on July 14 in Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">With hopes of a quarterfinal spot still alive, the Mares watched their fate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150139.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>As the 2024 CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) enters the quarterfinal stage, four teams&#8211;DR Congo, Tunisia, Tanzania, and Botswana&#8211;exit the competition, but not without leaving a lasting impression through memorable performances and unwavering determination. Botswana&#8217;s Comeback Falls Just Short Despite a spirited 2-1 comeback win against Tunisia, Botswana&#8217;s journey ended heartbreakingly on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670886:52c02b0ed835fdd1179aeb44f9d8bec5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,18307,4554,10804,14089,257,254,746,4703,24869],"class_list":["post-202475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-bow","tag-congo","tag-glory","tag-grit","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania","tag-tunisia","tag-wafcon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670886:52c02b0ed835fdd1179aeb44f9d8bec5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202475","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=202475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}