{"id":205599,"date":"2025-08-27T05:49:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-vs-island-pride-sudan-and-madagascar-write-new-totalenergies-chan-chapter\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:49:54","slug":"east-africa-vs-island-pride-sudan-and-madagascar-write-new-totalenergies-chan-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-vs-island-pride-sudan-and-madagascar-write-new-totalenergies-chan-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa Vs Island Pride &#8211; Sudan and Madagascar Write New TotalEnergies CHAN Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Football has a way of bringing unlikely heroes to the fore, and Tuesday&#8217;s TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) semi-final in Dar es Salaam promises just that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Sudan, a nation battling internal strife yet thriving under Ghanaian coach James Kwesi Appiah, will meet Madagascar, the island nation whose fairytale rise has captured imaginations across the continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">For both sides, the stakes could not be higher. Neither has ever reached the CHAN final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260626.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football has a way of bringing unlikely heroes to the fore, and Tuesday&#8217;s TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) semi-final in Dar es Salaam promises just that. Sudan, a nation battling internal strife yet thriving under Ghanaian coach James Kwesi Appiah, will meet Madagascar, the island nation whose fairytale rise has captured imaginations across the continent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205600,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,11500,23408,6719,12142,7973,257,15797,254,4708,1613,38847,12962],"class_list":["post-205599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chan","tag-chapter","tag-east","tag-island","tag-madagascar","tag-news","tag-pride","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-totalenergies","tag-write"],"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\/205599","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=205599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}