{"id":220421,"date":"2026-01-14T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-salah-sparkles-as-egypt-eliminates-holders-to-book-last-four-date-with-senegal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:56:48","slug":"africa-salah-sparkles-as-egypt-eliminates-holders-to-book-last-four-date-with-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-salah-sparkles-as-egypt-eliminates-holders-to-book-last-four-date-with-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Salah Sparkles As Egypt Eliminates Holders to Book Last Four Date With Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Egypt has qualified for the semi-finals of the 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Pharaohs will face the Lions of Teranga on Wednesday in Tangier<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The other semi-final will be played between Morocco and Nigeria on Wednesday in Rabat<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>Egypt 3-2 Cote d&#8217;Ivoire <\/strong><em>Scorers: O. Marmoush (4&#8242;), R. Rabia (32&#8242;), M. Salah (52&#8242;) \/ A. Fatou own goal (40&#8242;), G. Dou\u00e9 (73&#8242;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mohamed Salah scored and provided an assist as Egypt withstood the Ivorian wave to snatch a dramatic 3-2 victory in a thrilling&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120668.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 has qualified for the semi-finals of the 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations The Pharaohs will face the Lions of Teranga on Wednesday in Tangier The other semi-final will be played between Morocco and Nigeria on Wednesday in Rabat Egypt 3-2 Cote d&#8217;Ivoire Scorers: O. Marmoush (4&#8242;), R. Rabia (32&#8242;), M. Salah (52&#8242;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220422,"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":[258,256,8306,6144,4697,415,6299,22651,257,13702,3969,254,53409],"class_list":["post-220421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-book","tag-date","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-eliminates","tag-holders","tag-news","tag-salah","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparkles"],"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\/220421","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=220421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}