{"id":204970,"date":"2025-08-19T03:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-kenya-out-to-seal-group-a-supremacy-as-zambia-fight-for-pride\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T01:35:55","slug":"africa-kenya-out-to-seal-group-a-supremacy-as-zambia-fight-for-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-kenya-out-to-seal-group-a-supremacy-as-zambia-fight-for-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kenya Out to Seal Group a Supremacy As Zambia Fight for Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>For Kenya, qualification for the quarter-finals has already been secured, but Sunday&#8217;s final Group A clash against Zambia is about much more than a place in the last eight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">It is about proving dominance on home soil, cementing their rise under Benni McCarthy, and silencing any lingering doubts about their ability to challenge for the CHAN 2024 crown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Kenya&#8217;s Moment to Define Authority<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Harambee Stars sit top of Group A with seven points, ahead of Morocco and DR Congo, and will want to finish&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Kenya, qualification for the quarter-finals has already been secured, but Sunday&#8217;s final Group A clash against Zambia is about much more than a place in the last eight. It is about proving dominance on home soil, cementing their rise under Benni McCarthy, and silencing any lingering doubts about their ability to challenge for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204971,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,4345,5192,4688,257,15797,5120,254,29351,4709,881],"class_list":["post-204970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fight","tag-group","tag-kenya","tag-news","tag-pride","tag-seal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supremacy","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/204970","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=204970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}