{"id":207120,"date":"2025-09-14T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-al-hilal-qualifies-to-face-rwandan-army-in-cecafa-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:46:00","slug":"sudan-al-hilal-qualifies-to-face-rwandan-army-in-cecafa-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-al-hilal-qualifies-to-face-rwandan-army-in-cecafa-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Al-Hilal Qualifies to Face Rwandan Army in Cecafa Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8211; Al-Hilal of Sudan has qualified for the semifinals of the CECAFA (Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations) Club Championship after defeating South Sudan&#8217;s Kator Juba 3-1 in Tanzania, the host country of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Al-Hilal will face the Rwandan Army team on September 12 at the Dar es Salaam Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In the same group, Al-Ahli Madani lost 2-1 to Mogadishu City, leaving Al-Hilal at the top with five points and an equal goal tally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Al-Hilal dominated from the start and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110652.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>&#8211; Al-Hilal of Sudan has qualified for the semifinals of the CECAFA (Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations) Club Championship after defeating South Sudan&#8217;s Kator Juba 3-1 in Tanzania, the host country of the tournament. Al-Hilal will face the Rwandan Army team on September 12 at the Dar es Salaam Stadium. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207121,"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":[258,256,50340,4361,17077,7127,257,12081,546,14272,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-207120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alhilal","tag-army","tag-cecafa","tag-face","tag-news","tag-qualifies","tag-rwandan","tag-semifinal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-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\/207120","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=207120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}