{"id":219166,"date":"2026-01-04T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-driven-by-the-people-fueled-by-belief-sudan-hope-to-continue-writing-afcon-story\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:10:06","slug":"sudan-driven-by-the-people-fueled-by-belief-sudan-hope-to-continue-writing-afcon-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-driven-by-the-people-fueled-by-belief-sudan-hope-to-continue-writing-afcon-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Driven By the People, Fueled By Belief &#8211; Sudan Hope to Continue Writing Afcon Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Sudan captain Mohamed Abdelrahman says pride and responsibility are fueling the <em>Falcons of Jediane<\/em> after securing progression from the group stage of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Morocco 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Sudan, winners of the title in 1970, have earned a place in the last 16 of the tournament this year after finishing among the top four ranking in the third-placed teams. Abdelrahman has said this qualification has been a moment of joy for the Sudanese people amid the difficult realities&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601030134.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>Sudan captain Mohamed Abdelrahman says pride and responsibility are fueling the Falcons of Jediane after securing progression from the group stage of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Morocco 2025. Sudan, winners of the title in 1970, have earned a place in the last 16 of the tournament this year after finishing among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219167,"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":[9488,258,256,15555,8005,12716,37109,8868,257,6321,254,12231,4708,1613,8357],"class_list":["post-219166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belief","tag-continue","tag-driven","tag-fueled","tag-hope","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-story","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-writing"],"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\/219166","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=219166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}