{"id":218431,"date":"2025-12-29T10:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-matchday-4-cameroon-secure-historic-win-cote-divoire-begin-title-defence-with-victory-burkina-late-revival-stuns-equatorial-guinea\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T08:59:55","slug":"cameroon-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-matchday-4-cameroon-secure-historic-win-cote-divoire-begin-title-defence-with-victory-burkina-late-revival-stuns-equatorial-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-matchday-4-cameroon-secure-historic-win-cote-divoire-begin-title-defence-with-victory-burkina-late-revival-stuns-equatorial-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Afcon 2025 Matchday 4 &#8211; Cameroon Secure Historic Win, Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Begin Title Defence With Victory, Burkina Late Revival Stuns Equatorial Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Indomitable Lions start campaign with historic Gabon win<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Holders Cote d&#8217;Ivoire make decent start to title defence<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Mahrez braze seals Algeria 3-0 win over Sudan 3-0<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Burkina Faso secure a valuable 2-1 victory over Equatorial Guinea<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><strong>Cameroon began their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a moment of history as Karl Etta Eyong&#8217;s early goal secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Gabon in Agadir, their first ever AFCON win against their Central African neighbours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The Indomitable&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indomitable Lions start campaign with historic Gabon win Holders Cote d&#8217;Ivoire make decent start to title defence Mahrez braze seals Algeria 3-0 win over Sudan 3-0 Burkina Faso secure a valuable 2-1 victory over Equatorial Guinea Cameroon began their TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a moment of history as Karl Etta Eyong&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218432,"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":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,16956,4698,377,53235,5958,5959,6874,7555,4715,13203,8262,53209,257,11019,7904,254,13901,6675,10099,6660],"class_list":["post-218431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burkina","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-camerooncote","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-defence","tag-equatorial","tag-guinea","tag-historic","tag-late","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-revival","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stuns","tag-title","tag-victory","tag-win"],"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\/218431","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=218431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}