{"id":226094,"date":"2026-03-05T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-kenya-harambee-starlets-fall-to-ivory-coast-in-abidjan-turn-focus-to-french-recovery\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:57:09","slug":"cote-divoire-kenya-harambee-starlets-fall-to-ivory-coast-in-abidjan-turn-focus-to-french-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-kenya-harambee-starlets-fall-to-ivory-coast-in-abidjan-turn-focus-to-french-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire\/Kenya: Harambee Starlets Fall to Ivory Coast in Abidjan, Turn Focus to French Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>The Harambee Starlets West African tour ended on a challenging note on Wednesday night as they suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to hosts Ivory Coast at the Alassane Ouattara Olympic Stadium in Ebimp\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The decisive blow came early in the 21st minute, as the &#8220;Elephants&#8221; capitalized on a lapse in the Kenyan backline to net the game&#8217;s only goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Despite a spirited second-half response from Beldine Odemba&#8217;s side, the elusive equalizer remained just out of reach, leaving the Starlets with two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050250.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 The Harambee Starlets West African tour ended on a challenging note on Wednesday night as they suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to hosts Ivory Coast at the Alassane Ouattara Olympic Stadium in Ebimp\u00e9. The decisive blow came early in the 21st minute, as the &#8220;Elephants&#8221; capitalized on a lapse in the Kenyan backline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226095,"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":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,6560,5958,6183,6555,50828,9140,5759,410,10442,6559,1218,257,9918,254,12425,7101],"class_list":["post-226094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoirekenya","tag-fall","tag-focus","tag-french","tag-harambee","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-recovery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlets","tag-turn"],"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\/226094","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=226094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}