{"id":218090,"date":"2025-12-25T22:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/cameroon-cote-divoire-champs-ivory-coast-cameroon-algeria-win-2025-afcon-opener-matches\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:41:22","slug":"cameroon-cote-divoire-champs-ivory-coast-cameroon-algeria-win-2025-afcon-opener-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/cameroon-cote-divoire-champs-ivory-coast-cameroon-algeria-win-2025-afcon-opener-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Champs Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Algeria Win 2025 Afcon Opener Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 Manchester United forward Amad Diallo&#8217;s composed strike gave holders Ivory Coast 1-0 victory over Mozambique in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group F opener in Marrakech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Elsewhere, Riyad Mahrez&#8217;s double helped Algeria to a dominant victory over 10-man Sudan in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">In Agadir, Karl Etta Eyong&#8217;s early strike gave five-time champions Cameroon victory over Gabon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In an intense meeting between Central African neighbours, Cameroon set a bristling pace from the start by snapping up&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512250084.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Manchester United forward Amad Diallo&#8217;s composed strike gave holders Ivory Coast 1-0 victory over Mozambique in their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group F opener in Marrakech. Elsewhere, Riyad Mahrez&#8217;s double helped Algeria to a dominant victory over 10-man Sudan in Rabat. In Agadir, Karl Etta Eyong&#8217;s early strike gave five-time champions Cameroon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218091,"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":[654],"tags":[9488,258,256,4705,4698,53235,11203,6560,5959,6559,19750,682,257,13937,254,6660],"class_list":["post-218090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria","tag-cameroon","tag-camerooncote","tag-champs","tag-coast","tag-divoire","tag-ivory","tag-matches","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-opener","tag-south-africa-today","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\/218090","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=218090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}