{"id":213680,"date":"2025-11-15T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-stun-cameroon-to-face-nigeria-in-world-cup-qualifier-playoff-final\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:11:51","slug":"cameroon-congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-stun-cameroon-to-face-nigeria-in-world-cup-qualifier-playoff-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-congo-kinshasa-dr-congo-stun-cameroon-to-face-nigeria-in-world-cup-qualifier-playoff-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Stun Cameroon, to Face Nigeria in World Cup Qualifier Playoff Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), on Thursday night, secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Cameroon in the CAF World Cup qualifying play-offs, paving the way for a showdown with Nigeria in the final playoff round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The match, held at the Stade des Martyrs, saw a tense first half with neither side able to break the deadlock, although both teams had their chances. Key moments included Cameroon&#8217;s Charles Baleba and Chancel Mbemba attempting to make an early impact, but the DR Congo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140024.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 Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), on Thursday night, secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Cameroon in the CAF World Cup qualifying play-offs, paving the way for a showdown with Nigeria in the final playoff round. The match, held at the Stade des Martyrs, saw a tense first half with neither side able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641236:5a11389b48e5d8805a8aeba67288a509:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,52871,4554,6674,7127,6038,257,4687,20760,8496,254,12552,5093],"class_list":["post-213680","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-face","tag-final","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-playoff","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stun","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00641236:5a11389b48e5d8805a8aeba67288a509:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680","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=213680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}