{"id":187481,"date":"2024-12-29T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-car-stun-cameroon-for-historic-qualification-nigeria-burkina-and-drc-advance\/"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T11:04:47","slug":"africa-car-stun-cameroon-for-historic-qualification-nigeria-burkina-and-drc-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/africa-car-stun-cameroon-for-historic-qualification-nigeria-burkina-and-drc-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: CAR Stun Cameroon for Historic Qualification &#8211; Nigeria, Burkina and DRC Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>The second leg of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers delivered dramatic moments on Saturday as Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal and DR Congo booked their places in the final phase of the competition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The <strong>Central African Republic<\/strong> (CAR) achieved a historic first qualification by eliminating <strong>Cameroon<\/strong> in a stunning 2-1 comeback in Bafoussam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Despite Angel Yondjo Matah&#8217;s opener for Cameroon in the 31st minute, Barry Nelson&#8217;s penalty&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412290047.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second leg of the 2024 TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers delivered dramatic moments on Saturday as Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Guinea, Senegal and DR Congo booked their places in the final phase of the competition. The Central African Republic (CAR) achieved a historic first qualification by eliminating Cameroon in a stunning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661041:394fa480440459ed692e4549efd5a937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[11688,258,256,16956,4698,302,279,13203,257,4687,393,13369,254,12552],"class_list":["post-187481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burkina","tag-cameroon","tag-car","tag-drc","tag-historic","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-qualification","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stun"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661041:394fa480440459ed692e4549efd5a937:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187481","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=187481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}