{"id":220348,"date":"2026-01-13T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-blockbuster-afcon-semi-finals-confirmed-as-morocco-face-nigeria-senegal-play-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:56:13","slug":"africa-blockbuster-afcon-semi-finals-confirmed-as-morocco-face-nigeria-senegal-play-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-blockbuster-afcon-semi-finals-confirmed-as-morocco-face-nigeria-senegal-play-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Blockbuster Afcon Semi-Finals Confirmed As Morocco Face Nigeria, Senegal Play Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>The semi-final line-up for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has been confirmed, with Africa&#8217;s traditional heavyweights left standing after a dramatic quarter-final weekend that delivered goals, tension and high drama.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Senegal sealed their places in the last four after the quarter-finals matches were concluded on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Hosts Morocco will play star-studded Nigeria while Senegal, who were first to advance to semi-finals, will face Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120671.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semi-final line-up for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has been confirmed, with Africa&#8217;s traditional heavyweights left standing after a dramatic quarter-final weekend that delivered goals, tension and high drama. Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Senegal sealed their places in the last four after the quarter-finals matches were concluded on Saturday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220349,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,16477,8743,4697,415,7127,5609,257,4687,7543,14292,3969,254],"class_list":["post-220348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blockbuster","tag-confirmed","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-face","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-play","tag-semifinals","tag-senegal","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\/220348","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=220348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}