{"id":979481,"date":"2022-02-07T06:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/senegal-declares-national-holiday-to-celebrate-afcon-win\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T06:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:51:23","slug":"senegal-declares-national-holiday-to-celebrate-afcon-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/senegal-declares-national-holiday-to-celebrate-afcon-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal declares national holiday to celebrate Afcon win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"696\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/1644216683_328_FK8mKQuWUAIrD04-696x696.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Senegal AFCON\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Senegal\u2019s President, Macky Sall declared on Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team\u2019s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their victory against Egypt, public television announced.<\/p>\n<p>Sall, who had been due to visit Comoros at the end of a trip that took in Egypt and Ethiopia, cancelled the last leg in order to welcome the triumphant Lions on their return to Dakar at 1300 GMT on Monday, RTS said.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Liverpool star Sadio Mane, Senegal overcame Mohamed Salah\u2019s Egypt 4-2 in a penalty shoot-out at Sunday\u2019s final in Cameroon. The game had finished goalless after extra time.<\/p>\n<p>After two previous final defeats in 2002 and 2019, Senegal finally claimed their first Cup of Nations title.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The Lions will be decorated by Sall on Tuesday at the presidential palace in Dakar, RTS television said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President of the republic declared Monday a public holiday, a paid day off, following the brilliant victory of the Lions,\u201d RTS said, citing a presidential decree.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"o4rVRAVZC0Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tema Fire Incident: Goods worth GHC400,000 lost in fire \u2013 Adom TV News (4-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o4rVRAVZC0Q?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal\u2019s President, Macky Sall declared on Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team\u2019s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their victory against Egypt, public television announced. Sall, who had been due to visit Comoros at the end of a trip that took in Egypt and Ethiopia, cancelled the last leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,411,883,4423,1093,1281,309],"class_list":["post-979481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-celebrate","tag-declares","tag-holiday","tag-national","tag-senegal","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}