{"id":204488,"date":"2025-08-12T03:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-win-or-bust-angola-face-zambia-in-high-stakes-chan-clash\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T01:09:03","slug":"africa-win-or-bust-angola-face-zambia-in-high-stakes-chan-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-win-or-bust-angola-face-zambia-in-high-stakes-chan-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Win or Bust &#8211; Angola Face Zambia in High-Stakes CHAN Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>The air around Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday evening will be thick with tension and hope in equal measure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Angola&#8217;s Palancas Negras and Zambia&#8217;s Chipolopolo find themselves in a high-stakes clash that could define their entire TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">For Angola, the equation is painfully simple &#8212; anything less than victory could spell an early exit. For Zambia, it&#8217;s a chance to rebound and keep their dream alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>Angola&#8217;s Fight to Survive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">After a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110571.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air around Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday evening will be thick with tension and hope in equal measure. Angola&#8217;s Palancas Negras and Zambia&#8217;s Chipolopolo find themselves in a high-stakes clash that could define their entire TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 campaigns. For Angola, the equation is painfully simple &#8212; anything less than victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204489,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,20155,11500,7647,7127,30756,257,254,6660,4709],"class_list":["post-204488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-bust","tag-chan","tag-clash","tag-face","tag-highstakes","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win","tag-zambia"],"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\/204488","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=204488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}