{"id":21723,"date":"2025-12-27T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/benin-secures-first-afcon-victory\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:43","slug":"benin-secures-first-afcon-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/benin-secures-first-afcon-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin secures first AFCON victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benin record their first victory in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament when they beat Botswana at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat, Morroco this Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a must win match for both teams and the loss means Botswana race is all but run.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They have one more chance to put that record straight, but face Senegal next in Tangier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Friday night, Bafana Bafana\u2019s unbeaten run came to an end with defeat for the first time in 27 matches in an AFCON nail-biter in Agadir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pharaohs\u2019 superstar Mo Salah scored from the penalty spot after 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21724,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21723","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Benin record their first victory in the Africa Cup of Nations","published_date":"2025-12-27 18:17:28","news_description":"Benin record their first victory in the Africa Cup of Nations","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25285,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21723\/revisions\/25285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}