{"id":240778,"date":"2026-08-10T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-wafcon-ghana-set-up-last-eight-clash-with-fazilis-malawian-debutants\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:12:13","slug":"ghana-wafcon-ghana-set-up-last-eight-clash-with-fazilis-malawian-debutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-wafcon-ghana-set-up-last-eight-clash-with-fazilis-malawian-debutants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Wafcon &#8211; Ghana Set Up Last Eight Clash With Fazili&#8217;s Malawian Debutants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Ghana will take on tournament newcomers Malawi on Sunday for a place in the semi-finals at the 2026 women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) after a 1-1 draw with Mali. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Evelyn Badu scored the opener at the Stade Moulay Rachid in Casablanca just before half-time on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Kadidiatou Diabat\u00e9 levelled just after the restart but Mali failed to breach the Ghana rearguard again for the strike that would have taken them into the last eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070409.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will take on tournament newcomers Malawi on Sunday for a place in the semi-finals at the 2026 women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) after a 1-1 draw with Mali. Evelyn Badu scored the opener at the Stade Moulay Rachid in Casablanca just before half-time on Thursday night. Kadidiatou Diabat\u00e9 levelled just after the restart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7647,26125,55108,4508,4509,10173,257,7106,254,24869],"class_list":["post-240778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clash","tag-debutants","tag-fazilis","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-malawian","tag-news","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240778","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=240778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}