{"id":222419,"date":"2026-01-31T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-starlets-cast-the-net-wider-as-odemba-calls-local-talent-for-wafcon-mini-camp\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:20:49","slug":"kenya-starlets-cast-the-net-wider-as-odemba-calls-local-talent-for-wafcon-mini-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-starlets-cast-the-net-wider-as-odemba-calls-local-talent-for-wafcon-mini-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Starlets Cast the Net Wider As Odemba Calls Local Talent for Wafcon Mini-Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Harambee Starlets will enter a one-week mini-camp for locally based players as part of their preparations for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), as the technical bench intensifies efforts to strengthen the squad ahead of the continental showpiece.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The camp will run from February 1 to February 6, 2026, and is designed to assess emerging and in-form players from the domestic leagues as Kenya builds toward the tournament scheduled for March 17 to April 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The mini-camp&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300365.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 Harambee Starlets will enter a one-week mini-camp for locally based players as part of their preparations for the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), as the technical bench intensifies efforts to strengthen the squad ahead of the continental showpiece. The camp will run from February 1 to February 6, 2026, and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222420,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,6137,13632,4688,430,7823,53535,20460,257,46474,254,12425,6289,24869,20564],"class_list":["post-222419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-cast","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-local","tag-minicamp","tag-net","tag-news","tag-odemba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlets","tag-talent","tag-wafcon","tag-wider"],"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\/222419","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}