{"id":22706,"date":"2026-01-21T15:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-to-get-bonuses-land-for-africa-cup-of-nations-win\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:38","slug":"senegal-to-get-bonuses-land-for-africa-cup-of-nations-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/senegal-to-get-bonuses-land-for-africa-cup-of-nations-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal to get bonuses, land for Africa Cup of Nations win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Senegal&#8217;s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has offered bonuses of more than $130 000 as well as plots of coastal land to each member of the country&#8217;s soccer team following their victory in Sunday&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations final against Morocco.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He spoke at a ceremony in the capital Dakar on Tuesday night during which thousands of jubilant supporters took to the streets to welcome the victorious Lions of Teranga home.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Senegal beat hosts Morocco 1-0 after extra time, having staged a walk-off after they had a penalty awarded against them deep in stoppage time at the end of 90 minutes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>After the Senegal players returned to the pitch, Morocco missed the spot kick and Pape Gueye then won the trophy with a superb strike four minutes into extra time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Earlier on Tuesday, the Senegal players rode atop a bus emblazoned with the words &#8220;African champions&#8221; along Dakar&#8217;s corniche towards the presidential palace.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He said sports ministry staff would receive 305 million CFA francs in bonuses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22707,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,20],"class_list":["post-22706","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Senegal beat hosts Morocco 1-0 after extra time.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Senegal beat hosts Morocco 1-0 after extra time.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22706","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\/22706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25915,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22706\/revisions\/25915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}