{"id":218126,"date":"2025-12-26T03:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-afcon-2025-day-4-roundup-zidane-watches-algeria-cruise-as-cote-divoire-cameroon-secure-vital-wins\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:11:58","slug":"africa-afcon-2025-day-4-roundup-zidane-watches-algeria-cruise-as-cote-divoire-cameroon-secure-vital-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/africa-afcon-2025-day-4-roundup-zidane-watches-algeria-cruise-as-cote-divoire-cameroon-secure-vital-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 2025 Day 4 Roundup &#8211; Zidane Watches Algeria Cruise As C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Cameroon Secure Vital Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In Casablanca, Burkina Faso produced the most dramatic moment of the day, scoring twice deep into stoppage time to overturn Equatorial Guinea 2-1 in Group E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The fourth day of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco delivered authority, tension and late drama, as Algeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Cameroon all claimed important victories that began to shape the early narrative of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In Rabat, Algeria opened their Group E campaign in emphatic fashion, crushing Sudan 3-0 under&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512250168.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>In Casablanca, Burkina Faso produced the most dramatic moment of the day, scoring twice deep into stoppage time to overturn Equatorial Guinea 2-1 in Group E. The fourth day of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco delivered authority, tension and late drama, as Algeria, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Cameroon all claimed important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218127,"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\/00680291:7b226ddc00b5d088fb5a963bfa310a07:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[9488,258,256,4705,4698,5958,6183,6555,10674,5959,7165,1218,257,49804,7904,254,6609,49025,6552,53236],"class_list":["post-218126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria","tag-cameroon","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cruise","tag-divoire","tag-day","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vital","tag-watches","tag-wins","tag-zidane"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680291:7b226ddc00b5d088fb5a963bfa310a07:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218126","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=218126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}