{"id":24992,"date":"2026-01-24T23:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/all-you-need-to-know-about-afcon-2025-bbc-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:43:01","slug":"all-you-need-to-know-about-afcon-2025-bbc-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/all-you-need-to-know-about-afcon-2025-bbc-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need to know about Afcon 2025 &#8211; BBC Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6suKY62zu98?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The countdown is on for the kick off of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat, Morocco. <\/p>\n<p>Afcon is a competition deeply rooted in African cultural identity as it is in football. <\/p>\n<p>With this year&#8217;s competition shining on the world stage during the festive season, the BBC\u2019s Isaiah Akinremi lays down some quick facts you should know about it. <\/p>\n<p>Reporter: Isaiah Akinremi<br \/>\nVideo Producer: Njoroge Muigai<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: http:\/\/bit.ly\/subscribetoafrica<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/africa<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcnewsafrica\/<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcafrica\/<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6suKY62zu98\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown is on for the kick off of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat, Morocco. Afcon is a competition deeply rooted in African cultural identity as it is in football. With this year&#8217;s competition shining on the world stage during the festive season, the BBC\u2019s Isaiah Akinremi lays down some quick facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24994,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24992\/revisions\/24994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}