{"id":284889,"date":"2017-01-14T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284889"},"modified":"2017-01-14T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:16:58","slug":"afcon-2017-kicks-off-with-colorful-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284889","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2017 kicks off with colorful opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 31<sup>st<\/sup> edition of the African Cup of Nations has been opened at the Stade de l&#8217;Amitie in Libreville, Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was done by Gabon President, Ali Bongo as well as his Guinea-Bissau counterpart Jos\u00e9 M\u00e1rio Vaz.<\/p>\n<p>Among the dignitaries present at the opening of the African tournament was CAF President, Issa Hayatou.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony saw performances from top African artistes including Tanzania&#8217;s Diamond Platinumz, French born Senegalese rapper, Booba, Davido from Nigeria and an appearance by American-born Senegalese, Akon.<\/p>\n<p>There was also some circus and traditional performance at the stadium before the host nation hosted Guinea-Bissau in the first game that ended 1-1.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kv6w9j8GBrQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 31st edition of the African Cup of Nations has been opened at the Stade de l&#8217;Amitie in Libreville, Gabon. The opening was done by Gabon President, Ali Bongo as well as his Guinea-Bissau counterpart Jos\u00e9 M\u00e1rio Vaz. Among the dignitaries present at the opening of the African tournament was CAF President, Issa Hayatou. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[2497,199,337,396,3006,3007],"class_list":["post-284889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-afcon-2017","tag-caf","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-gabon-tournament","tag-gabon-vs-guinea-bissau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}