{"id":14335,"date":"2024-01-14T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T14:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2024-01-14T14:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T14:36:45","slug":"photos-afcon-2023-scenes-from-opening-ceremony-of-the-nations-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/14\/photos-afcon-2023-scenes-from-opening-ceremony-of-the-nations-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: AFCON 2023: Scenes From Opening Ceremony of The Nations Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations is underway in Cote D\u2019Ivoire, the host country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14336\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236722936-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236722936-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236722936-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236722936-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236722936.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony is happening at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium in Abidjan which will also play host to the opening match between hosts Ivory Coast and Guinea Bissau.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14337\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14338\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236719576-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236719576-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236719576-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236719576-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236719576.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14339 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FB_IMG_1705236704626-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The opening ceremony of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations is underway in Cote D\u2019Ivoire, the host country. &nbsp; The ceremony is happening at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium in Abidjan which will also play host to the opening match between hosts Ivory Coast and Guinea Bissau. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14341,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions\/14341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}