{"id":229743,"date":"2026-04-07T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shujaa-to-open-world-7s-championship-campaign-against-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:47:18","slug":"kenya-shujaa-to-open-world-7s-championship-campaign-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-shujaa-to-open-world-7s-championship-campaign-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Shujaa to Open World 7s Championship Campaign Against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The national men&#8217;s rugby 7s side will begin their World Championships campaign against Australia in Hong Kong on April 17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The match, scheduled for 12:56 pm on Friday afternoon, will be the first meeting between the two sides since the 2024 Paris Olympics, which the Australians won 21-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Next for Shujaa will be another bruising battle against New Zealand (3:27 pm) in which they will be hoping to avenge their 19-12 loss in their last meeting, at last year&#8217;s Perth 7s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Their final Pool C&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070405.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 The national men&#8217;s rugby 7s side will begin their World Championships campaign against Australia in Hong Kong on April 17. The match, scheduled for 12:56 pm on Friday afternoon, will be the first meeting between the two sides since the 2024 Paris Olympics, which the Australians won 21-7. Next for Shujaa will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229744,"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":[258,256,7225,4302,6843,4688,430,257,5983,16184,254,5093],"class_list":["post-229743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-australia","tag-campaign","tag-championship","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-open","tag-shujaa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/229743","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=229743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}