{"id":207354,"date":"2025-09-16T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-crowned-mens-u16-afrobasket-champions\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:23:12","slug":"cote-divoire-cote-divoire-crowned-mens-u16-afrobasket-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-cote-divoire-crowned-mens-u16-afrobasket-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Crowned Men&#8217;s U16 Afrobasket Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong><em>Final<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire 62-49 Cameroon<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire qualified for the 2026 FIBA U17 World Championships after winning the FIBA men&#8217;s U16 African championship title on Sunday, September 14, at the Petit Stade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The young Elephants saw off Cameroon in the final, winning 62-49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire delivered on their promise, and while they faced tough competition from Cameroon, they never faltered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Cameroon showed grit and determination from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509160203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire 62-49 Cameroon C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire qualified for the 2026 FIBA U17 World Championships after winning the FIBA men&#8217;s U16 African championship title on Sunday, September 14, at the Petit Stade. The young Elephants saw off Cameroon in the final, winning 62-49. Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp | LinkedIn C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207355,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,11621,14490,5958,6183,6555,11771,5959,1218,8462,257,254,10115],"class_list":["post-207354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afrobasket","tag-champions","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-crowned","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-mens","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u16"],"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\/207354","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=207354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}