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Gabon retook pole position in the race with Cote d’Ivoire to play at the 2026 World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Kenya on Sunday afternoon. <\/em><\/p>\n Veteran striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang<\/a> struck in the 16th minute for Gabon in the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.<\/p>\n The 35-year-old<\/a> added the second from the penalty spot in the 52nd minute. Even though the hosts struck back 10 minutes later through Michael Olunga, Gabon held firm.<\/p>\n The victory took Thierry Dieudonne Mouyouma’s men to 15 points in Group…<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gabon retook pole position in the race with Cote d’Ivoire to play at the 2026 World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Kenya on Sunday afternoon. Veteran striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang struck in the 16th minute for Gabon in the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi. The 35-year-old added the second from the penalty spot in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,7126,2951,1218,4688,257,21276,15578,7414,254],"class_list":["post-194406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-edge","tag-gabon","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-kenya","tag-news","tag-pile","tag-pressure","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194406","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=194406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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