{"id":202702,"date":"2025-07-18T02:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambia-dr-congo-a-clash-of-opposing-ambitions-to-close-group-a\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:30:02","slug":"africa-zambia-dr-congo-a-clash-of-opposing-ambitions-to-close-group-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-zambia-dr-congo-a-clash-of-opposing-ambitions-to-close-group-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Zambia &#8211; DR Congo &#8211; a Clash of Opposing Ambitions to Close Group a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"82\">Zambia and DR Congo are preparing to face each other for the first time in the finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON). This duel, scheduled for Saturday evening at the El Bachir Stadium in Mohammedia (8:00 pm local time), will be the final game of Group A. For the Copper Queens, the stakes are clear: secure their spot in the quarterfinals and, if possible, finish first. For the Congolese, it is all about securing their first victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>Zambia full of confidence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140804.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambia and DR Congo are preparing to face each other for the first time in the finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON). This duel, scheduled for Saturday evening at the El Bachir Stadium in Mohammedia (8:00 pm local time), will be the final game of Group A. For the Copper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202703,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,19589,7647,6748,4554,5192,257,13273,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-202702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitions","tag-clash","tag-close","tag-congo","tag-group","tag-news","tag-opposing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-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\/202702","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=202702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}