{"id":221357,"date":"2026-01-21T23:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-can-handball-rwanda-to-face-zambia-in-opening-match\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:35:03","slug":"zambia-can-handball-rwanda-to-face-zambia-in-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-can-handball-rwanda-to-face-zambia-in-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: Can Handball &#8211; Rwanda to Face Zambia in Opening Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em>Rwanda vs Zambia<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Time:<\/strong> 8:00 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Venue:<\/strong> BK Arena<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Rwanda will open their campaign at the 27th Men&#8217;s Senior Handball Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday, January 21, with a clash against Zambia at BK Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The continental showpiece runs from January 21 to 31 and will be hosted across two venues&#8211;BK Arena and Petit Stade. The tournament features 16 of Africa&#8217;s top handball nations, including hosts Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">This edition marks a historic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601210148.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda vs Zambia Time: 8:00 PM Venue: BK Arena Rwanda will open their campaign at the 27th Men&#8217;s Senior Handball Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday, January 21, with a clash against Zambia at BK Arena. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines The continental showpiece runs from January 21 to 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221358,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,7127,10235,8778,257,11416,4702,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-221357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-face","tag-handball","tag-match","tag-news","tag-opening","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/221357","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}