{"id":205505,"date":"2025-08-26T05:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-ba-fires-holders-senegal-into-chan-semis-as-sudan-edge-algeria\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:44:07","slug":"africa-ba-fires-holders-senegal-into-chan-semis-as-sudan-edge-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-ba-fires-holders-senegal-into-chan-semis-as-sudan-edge-algeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Ba Fires Holders Senegal Into CHAN Semis As Sudan Edge Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Defending champions Senegal booked their passage into the semi-finals of the African Nations Championships (Chan) with a narrow 1-0 win over co-hosts Uganda at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Oumar Ba struck the decisive goal just after the hour to send the Lions of Teranga into a semi-final against Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Sudan also made it through to the last four as they beat the 2022 finalists Algeria 4-2 on penalties at the Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar after the two sides were tied up at 1-1 after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champions Senegal booked their passage into the semi-finals of the African Nations Championships (Chan) with a narrow 1-0 win over co-hosts Uganda at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala on Saturday. Oumar Ba struck the decisive goal just after the hour to send the Lions of Teranga into a semi-final against Morocco. Sudan also made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205506,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,4705,11500,7126,8745,22651,257,7128,3969,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-205505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria","tag-chan","tag-edge","tag-fires","tag-holders","tag-news","tag-semis","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-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\/205505","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}