{"id":245963,"date":"2026-09-29T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ghana-egypt-senegal-and-ghana-face-pressure-to-relaunch-drive-for-2027-afcon\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:30:13","slug":"egypt-ghana-egypt-senegal-and-ghana-face-pressure-to-relaunch-drive-for-2027-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-ghana-egypt-senegal-and-ghana-face-pressure-to-relaunch-drive-for-2027-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Ghana: Egypt, Senegal and Ghana Face Pressure to Relaunch Drive for 2027 Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em> Continental powerhouses Egypt, Ghana and Senegal will attempt to get their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaigns back on track on Tuesday after opening round setbacks last week. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Egypt and Senegal drew on Friday against Angola and Mozambique respectively while Ghana went down 2-0 to C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in Bouak\u00e9 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;In terms of possession, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire was better than us,&#8221; Ghana boss Carlos Queiroz conceded after the defeat.<\/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\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental powerhouses Egypt, Ghana and Senegal will attempt to get their 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaigns back on track on Tuesday after opening round setbacks last week. Egypt and Senegal drew on Friday against Angola and Mozambique respectively while Ghana went down 2-0 to C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in Bouak\u00e9 on Thursday night. &#8220;In terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245964,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,13716,4697,415,17856,7127,4508,257,15578,8101,3969,254],"class_list":["post-245963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drive","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptghana","tag-face","tag-ghana","tag-news","tag-pressure","tag-relaunch","tag-senegal","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\/245963","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=245963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}