{"id":36078,"date":"2026-01-21T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/caf-imposes-7-sanctions-on-algeria-following-nigeria-incidents-in-afcon-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:14:18","slug":"caf-imposes-7-sanctions-on-algeria-following-nigeria-incidents-in-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/caf-imposes-7-sanctions-on-algeria-following-nigeria-incidents-in-afcon-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF imposes 7 sanctions on Algeria following Nigeria incidents in AFCON qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_7a6c72b62ab45fcc\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">CAF penalizes Algeria national team due to incidents in Nigeria match during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) &#8211; The Algerian Football Federation revealed, through its official website on Wednesday, the sanctions imposed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on the Algerian national team, known as the &#8220;Desert Warriors,&#8221; following the events of the Nigeria match held during the quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The match, which took place on January 10, is the focus of the imposed sanctions, as it witnessed protests by Algerian players against refereeing decisions, in addition to a brawl between Algerian and Nigerian players, and ongoing riots in the stadium stands.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The Algerian Football Federation is expected to issue an official statement detailing the sanctions incurred by the team.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, seeking to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world to convey the truth and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">For more news, you can visit our homepage:<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><a class=\"ng-star-inserted\" href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-hveid=\"0\" data-ved=\"0CAAQ_4QMahcKEwiO7eGZo6CSAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQbQ\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAF penalizes Algeria national team due to incidents in Nigeria match during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) &#8211; The Algerian Football Federation revealed, through its official website on Wednesday, the sanctions imposed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on the Algerian national team, known as the &#8220;Desert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}