{"id":218085,"date":"2025-12-25T22:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-afcon-matchday-3-tunisia-defeats-uganda-lookmans-swift-reply-seals-nigeria-win-senegal-cruise-past-botswana-dr-congo-edge-benin\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:30:09","slug":"africa-afcon-matchday-3-tunisia-defeats-uganda-lookmans-swift-reply-seals-nigeria-win-senegal-cruise-past-botswana-dr-congo-edge-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-afcon-matchday-3-tunisia-defeats-uganda-lookmans-swift-reply-seals-nigeria-win-senegal-cruise-past-botswana-dr-congo-edge-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon Matchday 3 &#8211; Tunisia Defeats Uganda, Lookman&#8217;s Swift Reply Seals Nigeria Win, Senegal Cruise Past Botswana, DR Congo Edge Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>DR Congo secure narrow 1-0 win over Benin in Rabat<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Senegal cruise to 3-0 win against Botswana<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Nigeria recover from scare to beat Tanzania<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Tunisia ease past Uganda<\/em> <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/match-centre?competition=190&amp;season=2025&amp;match=2506779\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tunisia 3-1 Uganda<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><strong>Goals: E. Skhiri (10&#8242;), Elias Achouri (40&#8242;, 64&#8242;) \/ D. Omedi (90+2&#8242;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><strong>Tunisia made a perfect start to their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 campaign with a convincing 3-1 victory over Uganda on Tuesday evening at the Annex Olympic Stadium of the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex in Rabat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512250085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR Congo secure narrow 1-0 win over Benin in Rabat Senegal cruise to 3-0 win against Botswana Nigeria recover from scare to beat Tanzania Tunisia ease past Uganda Tunisia 3-1 Uganda Goals: E. Skhiri (10&#8242;), Elias Achouri (40&#8242;, 64&#8242;) \/ D. Omedi (90+2&#8242;) Tunisia made a perfect start to their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680288:ac7b27e898f2964d6ce6be7b789613e4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[9488,258,256,4737,4718,2462,4554,10674,10374,7126,53232,53209,257,4687,24063,11124,3969,254,24640,4703,4707,6660],"class_list":["post-218085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-congo","tag-cruise","tag-defeats","tag-edge","tag-lookmans","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-reply","tag-seals","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swift","tag-tunisia","tag-uganda","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680288:ac7b27e898f2964d6ce6be7b789613e4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218085","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=218085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}