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Jubilant Ivory Coast fans take to streets to celebrate Africa Cup of Nations win

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Thousands of jubilant Ivory Coast supporters were taking to Abidjan’s city streets on Monday to celebrate the country’s Africa Cup of Nations victory. Blowing whistles and vuvuzelas, singing and chanting, the supporters poured out of commuter buses near the Félix-Houphouët-Boigny Stadium, where many then ran to arrive in time for the culmination of the team’s …

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Ivory Coast was ‘already dead’ at the Africa Cup. But the Elephants are somehow in the semifinals

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Host country Ivory Coast is writing Hollywood scripts at the Africa Cup of Nations. The team has been implausibly avoiding elimination again and again in the tournament and now, somehow, the Elephants have made it to the semifinals. The players held their heads after the latest incredible escape as if they couldn’t believe it, either. …

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