{"id":234789,"date":"2026-05-29T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-bal-2026-edition-petro-beats-al-ahly-and-qualifies-to-the-final\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:55:55","slug":"angola-bal-2026-edition-petro-beats-al-ahly-and-qualifies-to-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-bal-2026-edition-petro-beats-al-ahly-and-qualifies-to-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Bal 2026 Edition &#8211; Petro Beats Al Ahly and Qualifies to the Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Luanda \u2014 Petro de Luanda qualified, on Thursday, for the final of the African Basketball League (BAL), after beating Al Ahly of Benghazi, from Libya, by 94-88, in the semi-finals of the tournament taking place in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Angolans will face the host team, the Tigers, in the final on Sunday (31), who eliminated Al Ahly of Egypt in the other semi-final (106-97).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Angolan team, which was down 5 points at halftime (43-48), made the 4th and final period the decisive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290524.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Petro de Luanda qualified, on Thursday, for the final of the African Basketball League (BAL), after beating Al Ahly of Benghazi, from Libya, by 94-88, in the semi-finals of the tournament taking place in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The Angolans will face the host team, the Tigers, in the final on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234790,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,11757,3941,4263,38465,8798,11246,6038,257,10236,12081,254],"class_list":["post-234789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahly","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-bal","tag-beats","tag-edition","tag-final","tag-news","tag-petro","tag-qualifies","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/234789","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=234789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}