{"id":198215,"date":"2025-05-16T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-from-freetown-to-fame-how-momoh-kamara-lit-up-egypt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:55:12","slug":"africa-from-freetown-to-fame-how-momoh-kamara-lit-up-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-from-freetown-to-fame-how-momoh-kamara-lit-up-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: From Freetown to Fame &#8211; How Momoh Kamara Lit Up Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>At just 20 years old, Momoh Kamara has emerged as the undisputed heartbeat of Sierra Leone&#8217;s U20 side at the TotalEnergies CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">His combination of poise, power and precision has not only helped the tournament debutants reach the quarter-finals, but has also turned him into one of Africa&#8217;s brightest young stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Kamara&#8217;s exploits&#8211;from a stunning hat-trick against hosts Egypt to a commanding all-round midfield display across four matches&#8211;have earned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150041.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At just 20 years old, Momoh Kamara has emerged as the undisputed heartbeat of Sierra Leone&#8217;s U20 side at the TotalEnergies CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Egypt 2025. His combination of poise, power and precision has not only helped the tournament debutants reach the quarter-finals, but has also turned him into one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198216,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,4697,14700,1359,9699,14460,20744,257,1135,254],"class_list":["post-198215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-fame","tag-freetown","tag-kamara","tag-lit","tag-momoh","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone-news","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\/198215","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=198215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}