{"id":248929,"date":"2026-11-03T02:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/rwanda-cameroon-afcon-u-23-nshimiyimana-summons-squad-for-cameroon-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T02:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T00:30:21","slug":"rwanda-cameroon-afcon-u-23-nshimiyimana-summons-squad-for-cameroon-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/rwanda-cameroon-afcon-u-23-nshimiyimana-summons-squad-for-cameroon-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\/Cameroon: Afcon U-23 &#8211; Nshimiyimana Summons Squad for Cameroon Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Rwanda U-23 head coach Eric Nshimiyimana has named his squad for the upcoming 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) U-23 second-round qualifying tie against Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nshimiyimana has blended locally based players with several foreign-based talents, including Bedford Town midfielder Claude Smith Kayibanda of England, Belgium-based midfielder Munezero Ngabo and France-based duo Taylan Mukuunda and Thierry Musabyimana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The coach has also retained several players who played key roles in Rwanda&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611020239.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda U-23 head coach Eric Nshimiyimana has named his squad for the upcoming 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) U-23 second-round qualifying tie against Cameroon. Nshimiyimana has blended locally based players with several foreign-based talents, including Bedford Town midfielder Claude Smith Kayibanda of England, Belgium-based midfielder Munezero Ngabo and France-based duo Taylan Mukuunda and Thierry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":248930,"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":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,4698,377,257,55767,8496,32694,254,8984,11860,10472],"class_list":["post-248929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-nshimiyimana","tag-qualifier","tag-rwandacameroon","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad","tag-summons","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\/248929","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=248929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}