{"id":233825,"date":"2026-05-20T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/zimbabwe-congo-kinshasa-zimbabwe-drawn-with-dr-congo-equatorial-guinea-sierra-leone-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:18:37","slug":"zimbabwe-congo-kinshasa-zimbabwe-drawn-with-dr-congo-equatorial-guinea-sierra-leone-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/zimbabwe-congo-kinshasa-zimbabwe-drawn-with-dr-congo-equatorial-guinea-sierra-leone-in-2027-afcon-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Congo-Kinshasa: Zimbabwe Drawn With DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone in 2027 Afcon Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s national football team has been drawn in Group E of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers, following the official draw conducted by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Warriors will face Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Sierra Leone in what promises to be a competitive qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The 2027 AFCON tournament, which will be co-hosted by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, is scheduled to run from 19 June to 17 July&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s senior men&#8217;s national football team has been drawn in Group E of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers, following the official draw conducted by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) this afternoon. The Warriors will face Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Sierra Leone in what promises to be a competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681488:9ba32f46bf1004e7a8dde0964a7d495a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[9488,258,256,4554,14096,7555,4715,6572,257,7318,6571,1135,254,4686,29226],"class_list":["post-233825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congo","tag-drawn","tag-equatorial","tag-guinea","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwecongokinshasa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681488:9ba32f46bf1004e7a8dde0964a7d495a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233825","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=233825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}