{"id":220213,"date":"2026-01-12T22:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-vs-cote-divoire-a-clash-of-familiar-foes-dreams-and-history\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:53:59","slug":"africa-egypt-vs-cote-divoire-a-clash-of-familiar-foes-dreams-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-egypt-vs-cote-divoire-a-clash-of-familiar-foes-dreams-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Egypt Vs C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire &#8211; A Clash of Familiar Foes, Dreams and History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Egypt and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire are no strangers to each another. And, when the two continental heavyweights collide at the Grand Stade d&#8217;Agadir in the quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Morocco 2025, it will be yet another chapter in a rivalry built on history, prestige and deep mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">This is a meeting of ambition and legacy. C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire arrive determined to defend their continental crown, while Egypt are driven by the pursuit of history, chasing a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120674.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire are no strangers to each another. And, when the two continental heavyweights collide at the Grand Stade d&#8217;Agadir in the quarter-finals of the TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), Morocco 2025, it will be yet another chapter in a rivalry built on history, prestige and deep mutual respect. This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220214,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,7647,5958,5959,7409,4697,415,11788,14757,7099,257,254],"class_list":["post-220213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clash","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-dreams","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-familiar","tag-foes","tag-history","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/220213","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}