{"id":2934,"date":"2025-05-14T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:02:02","slug":"the-draw-for-the-african-qualifiers-for-the-2027-basketball-world-cup-determines-south-sudans-fate-in-an-exciting-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/the-draw-for-the-african-qualifiers-for-the-2027-basketball-world-cup-determines-south-sudans-fate-in-an-exciting-group\/","title":{"rendered":"The draw for the African qualifiers for the 2027 Basketball World Cup determines South Sudan&#8217;s fate in an exciting group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Juba &#8211; Juba Global News Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1977\/2025\/05\/1000186602.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2935\" style=\"width:740px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The draw for the African qualifiers for the 2027 Basketball World Cup &#8220;Qatar 2027&#8221; resulted in South Sudan being placed in Group A alongside Cameroon Libya and Cape Verde in balanced matches that represent a true test for the rising team\u2019s capabilities on the continental stage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full group distribution<br>Group A Cameroon CMR South Sudan SSD Libya LBA Cape Verde CPV<br>Group B Senegal SEN Democratic Republic of the Congo COD Madagascar MAD Ivory Coast CIV<br>Group C Nigeria NGR Rwanda RWA Guinea GUI Tunisia TUN<br>Group D Mali MLI Angola ANG Uganda UGA Egypt EGY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Sudan\u2019s national team enters these qualifiers as a key player following its impressive performance in the 2023 World Cup raising expectations for a potential second consecutive World Cup qualification<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fierce competition among the continent\u2019s giants<br>The qualifiers feature intense competition among Africa\u2019s top teams such as Egypt Angola Tunisia Senegal and Nigeria heightening the race for the four tickets allocated to Africa in the finals<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The qualifiers are set to begin in the coming months amid widespread fan interest as the participating teams aim to secure their spots in the global tournament to be held in Doha in 2027<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; Juba Global News Network The draw for the African qualifiers for the 2027&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[786,1,780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-news","category-southsudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directtopic.com\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}