{"id":205532,"date":"2025-08-26T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-crowned-afrobasket-2025-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T15:34:46","slug":"southern-africa-angola-crowned-afrobasket-2025-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/southern-africa-angola-crowned-afrobasket-2025-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Angola Crowned Afrobasket 2025 Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><em><em>Sunday, August 24<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Angola 70-43 Mali<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Third place<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Senegal 98-72 Cameroon<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Angola secured their 12th FIBA men&#8217;s Afrobasket title after beating Mali 70-43 on Sunday, August 24, in Angola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Though not their most impressive performance in the tournament, the hosts led from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">With a lead of more than 20 points in the third quarter, the Angolan fans performed the Mexican wave in unison. At that point, there was no way back for Mali led by Aliou Diarra who was instrumental in eliminating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, August 24 Final Angola 70-43 Mali Third place Senegal 98-72 Cameroon Angola secured their 12th FIBA men&#8217;s Afrobasket title after beating Mali 70-43 on Sunday, August 24, in Angola. Though not their most impressive performance in the tournament, the hosts led from start to finish. With a lead of more than 20 points in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205533,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,11621,3941,4263,14490,11771,257,254,7153],"class_list":["post-205532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrobasket","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-crowned","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/205532","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=205532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}