{"id":216121,"date":"2026-03-25T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216121"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:56:35","slug":"south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216121","title":{"rendered":"South Africa set to host 2026 WAFCON after Morocco pulls out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African football was left reeling on Sunday night after South Africa officially confirmed it will host the 2026 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), following Morocco\u2019s sudden decision to withdraw less than two months before the tournament was due to begin. The unexpected development was announced by South Africa\u2019s Deputy Minister of Sport&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/2026\/02\/02\/south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African football was left reeling on Sunday night after South Africa officially confirmed it will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out-300x182.jpg",300,182,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out.jpg",600,364,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216121-south-africa-set-to-host-2026-wafcon-after-morocco-pulls-out-590x364.jpg",590,364,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}