{"id":218143,"date":"2025-12-26T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-senegal-vs-botswana-teranga-lions-open-afcon-2025-campaign-against-determined-zebras\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:30:57","slug":"africa-senegal-vs-botswana-teranga-lions-open-afcon-2025-campaign-against-determined-zebras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-senegal-vs-botswana-teranga-lions-open-afcon-2025-campaign-against-determined-zebras\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Senegal Vs Botswana &#8211; Teranga Lions Open Afcon 2025 Campaign Against Determined Zebras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Senegal begin their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 journey on Tuesday when they face Botswana at the Grand Stadium of Tangier, with the reigning champions eager to assert their status and the Zebras determined to seize a rare opportunity on the continental stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Group D encounter marks Botswana&#8217;s return to the AFCON finals for the first time since 2012, while Senegal arrive as one of the pre-tournament favourites, carrying both expectation and experience into the 35th&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230214.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>Senegal begin their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 journey on Tuesday when they face Botswana at the Grand Stadium of Tangier, with the reigning champions eager to assert their status and the Zebras determined to seize a rare opportunity on the continental stage. The Group D encounter marks Botswana&#8217;s return to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218144,"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":[2461],"tags":[9488,258,256,4718,2462,4302,15028,8779,257,5983,3969,254,24148,10761],"class_list":["post-218143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-campaign","tag-determined","tag-lions","tag-news","tag-open","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teranga","tag-zebras"],"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\/218143","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=218143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}