{"id":187143,"date":"2024-12-23T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-sudan-and-cote-divoire-take-commanding-first-leg-wins-in-final-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:49:09","slug":"africa-sudan-and-cote-divoire-take-commanding-first-leg-wins-in-final-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-sudan-and-cote-divoire-take-commanding-first-leg-wins-in-final-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Sudan and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Take Commanding First Leg Wins in Final Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The first leg of the final round of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 qualifiers delivered an exciting mix of results on Sunday, setting the stage for dramatic second-leg clashes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">In a highly anticipated West African derby, <strong>Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/strong> secured a commanding 2-0 win over <strong>Burkina Faso<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Oumar Konat\u00e9&#8217;s brace at the Stade F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny highlighted the Elephants&#8217; strength, putting them in a solid position for the return fixture in Bamako.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Elsewhere, <strong>Sudan<\/strong> secured a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412230026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first leg of the final round of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024 qualifiers delivered an exciting mix of results on Sunday, setting the stage for dramatic second-leg clashes. In a highly anticipated West African derby, Cote d&#8217;Ivoire secured a commanding 2-0 win over Burkina Faso. Oumar Konat\u00e9&#8217;s brace at the Stade F\u00e9lix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,19829,5958,6183,6555,5959,6038,1218,7491,257,7318,254,4708,6552],"class_list":["post-187143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commanding","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-final","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leg","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}