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The last batch of matches fofr Matchday Eight of Africa’s FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying served up contrasting results on Tuesday evening with group leaders Cote d’Ivoire held by closest opponents Gabon with Benin hitting Lesotho 4-0.<\/em><\/p>\n Group F leaders C\u00f4te d’Ivoire were held 0-0 in Libreville by closest rivals Gabon in a tight, high-stakes contest.<\/p>\n Benin thumped Lesotho 4-0 to strengthen their grip on second place in Group C, while Angola beat Mauritius 3-1 in Group D.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The last batch of matches fofr Matchday Eight of Africa’s FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifying served up contrasting results on Tuesday evening with group leaders Cote d’Ivoire held by closest opponents Gabon with Benin hitting Lesotho 4-0. Group F leaders C\u00f4te d’Ivoire were held 0-0 in Libreville by closest rivals Gabon in a tight, high-stakes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206716,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,30247,4737,8667,5958,5959,2951,6408,8032,7204,257,254,6609,6552],"class_list":["post-206715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolagambia","tag-benin","tag-claim","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-gabon","tag-gambia","tag-hit","tag-hold","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vital","tag-wins"],"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\/206715","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=206715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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