{"id":22651,"date":"2026-01-20T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/media-behaviour-condemned-after-chaotic-afcon-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:35","slug":"media-behaviour-condemned-after-chaotic-afcon-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/media-behaviour-condemned-after-chaotic-afcon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Media behaviour condemned after chaotic AFCON final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">The behaviour of some journalists after Sunday&#8217;s chaotic African Cup of Nations final between Morocco and Senegal has been condemned by the International Sports Press Association (AIPS).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Videos showed Moroccan journalists walking out as victorious Senegal coach Pape Bouna Thiaw walked into the post-match press conference room holding the hand of his daughter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Arguments and scuffles then broke out between Moroccan and Senegalese media and continued before Thiaw walked out.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Senegal beat the hosts 1-0 but the showpiece was overshadowed by farcical scenes as Thiaw ordered his players off the pitch in protest at a penalty being awarded to Morocco.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The AIPS Executive Committee strongly condemns the behaviour of colleagues who prevented the post-match press conference of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations final between Morocco and Senegal in Rabat from proceeding smoothly on Sunday,&#8221; the organisation said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Our Association cannot accept that certain colleagues could tarnish the dignity of our profession, hence we have asked our colleagues at AIPS Africa for a detailed report on the incident.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Midfielder Pape Gueye netted the 94th-minute winner after Morocco&#8217;s Brahim Diaz had squandered the chance to win it for the tournament hosts by fluffing the last-gasp penalty in normal time following a 14-minute delay.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22366,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-22651","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Videos showed Moroccan journalists walking out as victorious Senegal coach Pape Bouna Thiaw.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Videos showed Moroccan journalists walking out as victorious Senegal coach Pape Bouna Thiaw","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22651","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\/22651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25876,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22651\/revisions\/25876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}