{"id":41998,"date":"2026-08-10T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41998"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:37:11","slug":"malawi-book-first-ever-place-at-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/malawi-book-first-ever-place-at-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi book first-ever place at Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Malawi continued their fairytale debut at the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), coming from behind \u200bto beat Ghana 2-1 in Sunday\u2019s last quarter-final \u200cwhich also secured them a spot in the World Cup for the first time.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Rose Kadzere scored a 79th minute \u200bwinner following Temwa Chawinga\u2019s 12th minute equaliser after \u200bEnglish-born striker Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah had put Ghana into \u2060a seventh minute lead.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Malawi join Algeria, Cameroon and \u200bMorocco as Africa\u2019s four automatic qualifiers for next year&#8217;s \u200b32-team World Cup in Brazil. The four WAFCON quarter-final winners all advanced directly to the World Cup.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Malawi will meet Algeria in \u200bWednesday\u2019s first WAFCON semi-final, followed by hosts Morocco \u200bagainst Cameroon, who earlier on Sunday produced a shock when they \u200cousted \u2060defending champions Nigeria 1-0 in Casablanca.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Myriam Nyadjou, 19, struck a superb long-range free kick to hand her country a World Cup ticket.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Nigeria had qualified for all \u200bnine previous \u200bWomen\u2019s World \u2060Cup finals but now have to try and gain entry to the finals through \u200ba complicated play-off route that offers Africa \u200bthe \u2060possibility of two more representatives.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Their defeat means there will be a new WAFCON winner next week. Equatorial Guinea \u2060and \u200bSouth Africa are the only \u200bother countries to have won the African title.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The final is next Sunday \u200bin Rabat.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21698,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-41998","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Malawi join Algeria, Cameroon and \u200bMorocco as Africa\u2019s four automatic qualifiers for next year's \u200b32-team World Cup in Brazil.","published_date":"","news_description":"Malawi join Algeria, Cameroon and \u200bMorocco as Africa\u2019s four automatic qualifiers for next year's \u200b32-team World Cup in Brazil.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41999,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41998\/revisions\/41999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}