{"id":218546,"date":"2025-12-30T22:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-el-kaabi-brace-powers-morocco-to-win-bafana-brave-fightback-egypt-top-group-and-mali-reach-knockout-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:38:01","slug":"africa-el-kaabi-brace-powers-morocco-to-win-bafana-brave-fightback-egypt-top-group-and-mali-reach-knockout-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-el-kaabi-brace-powers-morocco-to-win-bafana-brave-fightback-egypt-top-group-and-mali-reach-knockout-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: El Kaabi Brace Powers Morocco to Win, Bafana Brave Fightback, Egypt Top Group and Mali Reach Knockout Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Morocco top of Group A after 3-0 win over Zambia<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Ten-man Mali reach knock-out stage after holding Comoros<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>South Africa survive Zimbabwe fightback to book knockout place<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Egypt top group despite goalless draw with Angola<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><strong>Morocco 3-0 Zambia: Atlas Lions power past Chipolopolo to seal top spot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Morocco responded emphatically to the pressure of a decisive final group match, producing a commanding 3-0 victory over Zambia on Monday night to finish top of Group A at the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300423.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco top of Group A after 3-0 win over Zambia Ten-man Mali reach knock-out stage after holding Comoros South Africa survive Zimbabwe fightback to book knockout place Egypt top group despite goalless draw with Angola Morocco 3-0 Zambia: Atlas Lions power past Chipolopolo to seal top spot Morocco responded emphatically to the pressure of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218547,"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\/00680349:f7ece0ee85030bebd6e82d0e3a8238f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,4348,11945,12113,4697,36727,5192,18488,37351,4637,5609,257,12139,5160,254,4281,7319,6660],"class_list":["post-218546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-bafana","tag-brace","tag-brave","tag-egypt","tag-fightback","tag-group","tag-kaabi","tag-knockout","tag-mali","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-powers","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-top","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680349:f7ece0ee85030bebd6e82d0e3a8238f8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218546","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=218546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}