{"id":194501,"date":"2025-03-25T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/africa-tunisia-leave-it-late-to-down-resilient-malawi-as-ethiopia-stun-djibouti-with-goal-fest\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:00:53","slug":"africa-tunisia-leave-it-late-to-down-resilient-malawi-as-ethiopia-stun-djibouti-with-goal-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/africa-tunisia-leave-it-late-to-down-resilient-malawi-as-ethiopia-stun-djibouti-with-goal-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Tunisia Leave It Late to Down Resilient Malawi As Ethiopia Stun Djibouti With Goal Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\"><em>Tunisia left it late but secured a crucial 2-0 win over a stubborn Malawi side to tighten their grip at the top of Group H in the 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers, while Ethiopia revived their campaign in emphatic fashion with a stunning 6-1 rout of Djibouti in Group A.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Seifeddine Jaziri came off the bench to break Malawi&#8217;s resistance with a headed goal in the 86th minute, before Elias Achouri sealed the victory with a stoppage-time penalty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Carthage Eagles were frustrated for much of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503250113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia left it late but secured a crucial 2-0 win over a stubborn Malawi side to tighten their grip at the top of Group H in the 2026 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers, while Ethiopia revived their campaign in emphatic fashion with a stunning 6-1 rout of Djibouti in Group A. Seifeddine Jaziri came off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630211:ec208c9be9f8aec4ad6b3a4dc645f30b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,4716,17142,8551,8262,6775,5028,257,28130,254,12552,4703],"class_list":["post-194501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-fest","tag-goal","tag-late","tag-leave","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-resilient","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stun","tag-tunisia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630211:ec208c9be9f8aec4ad6b3a4dc645f30b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194501","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}