{"id":213265,"date":"2026-03-06T20:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213265"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:17:21","slug":"senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213265","title":{"rendered":"Senegal awaits return of &#8216;heroic&#8217; AFCON champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal eagerly awaited the return of its champions Monday, with streets decked out in banners and flags and the population given a national holiday following the country&#8217;s thrilling Africa Cup of Nations win over Morocco. After a night of jubilation in Dakar, the morning newspapers were ebullient: &#8220;Heroic!&#8221; Le Soleil wrote as its single-word headline<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/sport\/senegal-awaits-return-heroic-afcon-champions\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal eagerly awaited the return of its champions Monday, with streets decked out in banners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions-300x199.webp",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213265-senegal-awaits-return-of-heroic-afcon-champions.webp",480,319,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}