{"id":213580,"date":"2025-11-14T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-congo-kinshasa-world-cup-playoffs-dr-congo-to-face-nigeria-after-dramatic-stoppage-time-winner-against-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:10:11","slug":"cameroon-congo-kinshasa-world-cup-playoffs-dr-congo-to-face-nigeria-after-dramatic-stoppage-time-winner-against-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-congo-kinshasa-world-cup-playoffs-dr-congo-to-face-nigeria-after-dramatic-stoppage-time-winner-against-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Congo-Kinshasa: World Cup Playoffs &#8211; DR Congo to Face Nigeria After Dramatic Stoppage-Time Winner Against Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The upcoming clash on Sunday at the Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay El Hassan in Rabat will determine Africa&#8217;s representative in the six-team intercontinental playoff scheduled for March 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles will face DR Congo in the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup African playoffs after a thrilling 4-1 extra-time victory over Gabon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The showdown in Rabat promises to be a decisive clash as Nigeria seeks to secure a place in the intercontinental playoffs.<\/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\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140125.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>The upcoming clash on Sunday at the Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay El Hassan in Rabat will determine Africa&#8217;s representative in the six-team intercontinental playoff scheduled for March 2026. Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles will face DR Congo in the final of the 2026 FIFA World Cup African playoffs after a thrilling 4-1 extra-time victory over Gabon on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213581,"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":[258,256,4698,377,52871,4554,6674,19640,7127,257,4687,17198,254,42908,7361,5093],"class_list":["post-213580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-camerooncongokinshasa","tag-congo","tag-cup","tag-dramatic","tag-face","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-playoffs","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stoppagetime","tag-winner","tag-world"],"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\/213580","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=213580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}