{"id":225490,"date":"2026-02-27T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-cote-divoire-step-up-wafcon-build-up-with-two-home-matches\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:42:15","slug":"africa-cote-divoire-step-up-wafcon-build-up-with-two-home-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-cote-divoire-step-up-wafcon-build-up-with-two-home-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Step Up Wafcon Build-Up With Two Home Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><em>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire will play two international friendlies against Benin and Kenya as part of their final preparations for the 2026 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which is scheduled to take place in Morocco from 17 March to 3 April.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Ivorian women&#8217;s national team started training camp in Abidjan on Tuesday 24 February before facing Benin on 28 February and Kenya on 4 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The first match will be held at the F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan at 19:00 GMT, while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire will play two international friendlies against Benin and Kenya as part of their final preparations for the 2026 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), which is scheduled to take place in Morocco from 17 March to 3 April. The Ivorian women&#8217;s national team started training camp in Abidjan on Tuesday 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225491,"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":[258,256,20015,5958,6183,6555,5959,8849,1218,19750,257,254,5165,24869],"class_list":["post-225490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buildup","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-home","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-matches","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-wafcon"],"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\/225490","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=225490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}