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With one week to go before the start of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo approach the tournament with renewed confidence but grounded expectations.<\/em><\/p>\n After reaching the semi-finals in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire last year and sealing a historic qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Leopards arrive with a new status–still outsiders, but dangerous ones.<\/p>\n Placed in a difficult group with Senegal, Benin, and Botswana, S\u00e9bastien Desabre’s team knows…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> With one week to go before the start of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo approach the tournament with renewed confidence but grounded expectations. After reaching the semi-finals in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire last year and sealing a historic qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Leopards arrive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217697,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,27264,36054,1218,8831,257,8810,41075,254],"class_list":["post-217696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-desabre","tag-fluke","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leopards","tag-news","tag-prove","tag-sebastien","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/217696","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=217696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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