{"id":251,"date":"2015-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/night-of-shame-in-malabo-but-afcon2015-has-been-the-best-ever-for-africas-democratic-nations\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:07:02","slug":"night-of-shame-in-malabo-but-afcon2015-has-been-the-best-ever-for-africas-democratic-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/night-of-shame-in-malabo-but-afcon2015-has-been-the-best-ever-for-africas-democratic-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of shame in Malabo, but AFCON2015 has been the best ever for Africa\u2019s democratic nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missile-throwing Equatorial Guinea home spectators caused a long and chaotic second-half delay as Ghana set up an Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON2015) final with Cote d\u2019Ivoire by outplaying the hosts 3-0 on Thursday night.Play was halted eight minutes from time as disgruntled home fans flung various objects on the pitch and a break of more than 35 minutes ensued before order was restored and play resumed.<\/p>\n<p>A police helicopter flew low over the ground while Ghanaian supporters, feeling threatened by the home crowd, spilled into the area surrounding the pitch at the 15,000-seat Estadio de Malabo.<\/p>\n<p>A Ghana Football Association tweet read: \u201cPolice helicopter hovers above the pitch with the Ghana fans in real danger. It\u2019s now like a war zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/mgafrica.com\/article\/2015-02-06-night-of-shame-in-malabo-but-afcon2015-has-been-the-best-ever-for-africas-democratic-nations\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Missile-throwing Equatorial Guinea home spectators caused a long and chaotic second-half delay as Ghana set up an Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON2015) final with Cote d\u2019Ivoire by outplaying the hosts 3-0 on Thursday night.Play was halted eight minutes from time as disgruntled home fans flung various objects on the pitch and a break of more [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}