{"id":191138,"date":"2025-02-11T17:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2025-what-can-the-returnees-do\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:48:41","slug":"africa-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2025-what-can-the-returnees-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-totalenergies-caf-afcon-2025-what-can-the-returnees-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: TotalEnergies CAF Afcon 2025 &#8211; What Can the &#8216;Returnees&#8217; Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Gabon, Benin, Uganda, Botswana, and Zimbabwe are returning to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations finals after missing out on the last edition played last year in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">CAFOnline takes a closer look at the chances of these teams as they prepare to make a grand return to Africa&#8217;s most prestigious competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Gabon: Huge Challenges Against Cameroon and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Gabon qualified for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations TotalEnergies Morocco after finishing second in Group B with 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502110441.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon, Benin, Uganda, Botswana, and Zimbabwe are returning to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations finals after missing out on the last edition played last year in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire. CAFOnline takes a closer look at the chances of these teams as they prepare to make a grand return to Africa&#8217;s most prestigious competition. Gabon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191139,"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":[2461],"tags":[9488,258,256,2462,3742,257,8179,254,38847],"class_list":["post-191138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-caf","tag-news","tag-returnees","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies"],"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\/191138","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}