{"id":202997,"date":"2025-07-22T03:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-cameroon-promoted-to-billie-jean-king-cup-africa-group-iii\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:21:49","slug":"africa-cameroon-promoted-to-billie-jean-king-cup-africa-group-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-cameroon-promoted-to-billie-jean-king-cup-africa-group-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Cameroon Promoted to Billie Jean King Cup Africa Group III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cameroon earned promotion to Billie Jean Kong Cup Africa Group III after finishing top of the Group IV tournament which closed in Kigali on Saturday, July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The decisive playoff match saw Cameroon edge out Togo 2-1 to seal the group&#8217;s top spot. Both nations had beaten Rwanda in their promotion playoff round, leaving Saturday&#8217;s match between them to decide the winner of the tournament which was previously won by Algeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Cameroon accomplished their qualification mission with convincing wins in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210326.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon earned promotion to Billie Jean Kong Cup Africa Group III after finishing top of the Group IV tournament which closed in Kigali on Saturday, July 19. The decisive playoff match saw Cameroon edge out Togo 2-1 to seal the group&#8217;s top spot. Both nations had beaten Rwanda in their promotion playoff round, leaving Saturday&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202998,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,48758,4698,377,6674,5192,9002,7702,8946,257,8961,254],"class_list":["post-202997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billie","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cup","tag-group","tag-iii","tag-jean","tag-king","tag-news","tag-promoted","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\/202997","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=202997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}