{"id":233926,"date":"2026-05-21T16:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-morocco-and-egypt-reach-totalenergies-u-17-afcon-quarter-finals-after-dramatic-group-a-finale\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:17:36","slug":"africa-morocco-and-egypt-reach-totalenergies-u-17-afcon-quarter-finals-after-dramatic-group-a-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-morocco-and-egypt-reach-totalenergies-u-17-afcon-quarter-finals-after-dramatic-group-a-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Morocco and Egypt Reach TotalEnergies U-17 Afcon Quarter-Finals After Dramatic Group a Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>Morocco finished top of Group A at the TotalEnergies CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations after beating Egypt 2-1 on a dramatic final day that also saw Ethiopia eliminate Tunisia with a stoppage-time victory on Tuesday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The hosts secured first place in the group and a quarter-final spot with a strong first-half display against Egypt, who still progressed to the last eight despite the defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Both Morocco and Egypt also confirmed their places at the FIFA U-17 World Cup, while Ethiopia must now go&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210344.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>Morocco finished top of Group A at the TotalEnergies CAF U-17 Africa Cup of Nations after beating Egypt 2-1 on a dramatic final day that also saw Ethiopia eliminate Tunisia with a stoppage-time victory on Tuesday night. The hosts secured first place in the group and a quarter-final spot with a strong first-half display against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":233927,"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":[9488,258,256,19640,4697,415,16418,5192,5609,257,15866,5160,254,38847,9489],"class_list":["post-233926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dramatic","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-finale","tag-group","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-quarterfinals","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-totalenergies","tag-u17"],"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\/233926","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=233926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}