{"id":244711,"date":"2026-09-18T00:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/south-africa-kenya-afcon-2027-qualifiers-moriba-returns-as-guinea-name-squad-for-south-africa-and-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T22:30:18","slug":"south-africa-kenya-afcon-2027-qualifiers-moriba-returns-as-guinea-name-squad-for-south-africa-and-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/south-africa-kenya-afcon-2027-qualifiers-moriba-returns-as-guinea-name-squad-for-south-africa-and-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\/Kenya: Afcon 2027 Qualifiers &#8211; Moriba Returns As Guinea Name Squad for South Africa and Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Guinea coach Paulo Duarte has named a 25-man squad for the opening TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2027 qualifiers against South Africa and Kenya, with Ilaix Moriba among several players returning to the Syli National.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Guinea will begin their qualifying campaign away to South Africa at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on 26 September before hosting Kenya in Conakry on 1 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Duarte has recalled Moriba alongside Madiou Ke\u00efta and Sa\u00efdou Sow, while Kalmar FF defender Aboubacar Ke\u00efta has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609170190.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea coach Paulo Duarte has named a 25-man squad for the opening TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2027 qualifiers against South Africa and Kenya, with Ilaix Moriba among several players returning to the Syli National. Guinea will begin their qualifying campaign away to South Africa at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on 26 September before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244712,"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":[1118],"tags":[9488,258,256,55465,4715,1124,4688,55466,257,7318,5068,5069,254,8984],"class_list":["post-244711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africakenya","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-kenya","tag-moriba","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-returns","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad"],"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\/244711","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=244711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}