{"id":242690,"date":"2026-08-30T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rwanda-rwanda-drawn-against-sudan-in-afcon-u23-2027-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:52:59","slug":"sudan-rwanda-rwanda-drawn-against-sudan-in-afcon-u23-2027-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rwanda-rwanda-drawn-against-sudan-in-afcon-u23-2027-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\/Rwanda: Rwanda Drawn Against Sudan in Afcon U23 2027 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Rwanda will face Sudan in the first round of the qualifiers for the 2027 CAF U23 Africa Cup of Nations following the draw held in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The first leg is scheduled for September 20, with the return leg set for October 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Rwanda will be aiming to advance to the next round as they begin their bid to qualify for the tournament, which will be hosted by Egypt in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Rwanda were among eight teams placed in Pot 2 of the CECAFA zone, alongside Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda will face Sudan in the first round of the qualifiers for the 2027 CAF U23 Africa Cup of Nations following the draw held in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday. The first leg is scheduled for September 20, with the return leg set for October 6. Rwanda will be aiming to advance to the next round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242691,"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":[784],"tags":[9488,258,256,14096,257,7318,4702,254,4708,1613,55314,10472],"class_list":["post-242690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drawn","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanrwanda","tag-u23"],"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\/242690","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}