{"id":245427,"date":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ghana-cote-divoire-black-stars-touch-down-in-bouake-ahead-of-crunch-afcon-qualifier-against-cote-divoire\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:00:19","slug":"ghana-cote-divoire-black-stars-touch-down-in-bouake-ahead-of-crunch-afcon-qualifier-against-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/ghana-cote-divoire-black-stars-touch-down-in-bouake-ahead-of-crunch-afcon-qualifier-against-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Black Stars Touch Down in Bouak\u00e9 Ahead of Crunch Afcon Qualifier Against C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Black Stars of Ghana have arrived in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire ahead of their highly anticipated Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier clash against the Elephants of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The team touched down in Bouak\u00e9 on Wednesday morning after departing Accra, as preparations intensify for what promises to be a fierce West African derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a post shared on social media, the Ghana Football Association announced the arrival with the caption: &#8220;From Accra to Bouak\u00e9. Black Stars have touched down for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609240071.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The Black Stars of Ghana have arrived in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire ahead of their highly anticipated Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier clash against the Elephants of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The team touched down in Bouak\u00e9 on Wednesday morning after departing Accra, as preparations intensify for what promises to be a fierce West African derby. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":245428,"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":[9488,258,256,7019,8561,9232,5958,6183,6555,11657,5959,10818,1218,257,8496,254,9435,8493],"class_list":["post-245427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-black","tag-bouake","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-crunch","tag-divoire","tag-ghanacote","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stars","tag-touch"],"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\/245427","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=245427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}