{"id":337907,"date":"2011-03-25T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/latest-updates-on-nations-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:57:19","slug":"latest-updates-on-nations-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/latest-updates-on-nations-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"LATEST: Updates on Nations Cup qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/00a961ae42001_egypt.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Egyptian players celebrate with the Nations Cup trophy in Luanda\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Title holders Egypt will face South Africa in Johannesburg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- E IIMA --><\/p>\n<p><b>BBC Sport brings the latest news updates ahead of the weekend&#8217;s 2012 Cup of Nations qualifiers across Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Follow the updates below: <\/p>\n<p><b>1405 GMT:<\/b> Defender <b>Madjid Bougherra<\/b> is ruled out of Sunday&#8217;s Group D game against Morocco because of a hamstring injury. <\/p>\n<p><b>1300 GMT:<\/b> Massive boost for Ghana as Sulley Muntari trains with the Black Stars ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Group I clash with Congo. Muntari was an injury doubt for the game in Brazzaville. <\/p>\n<p><b>1230 GMT:<\/b> Cameroon coach Javier Clemente says returnee goalkeeper <b>Carlos Kameni<\/b> will start in their Group E game against Senegal on Saturday. The Spain-based player returns to the squad for the first time since the World Cup in South Africa in June. <\/p>\n<p><b>1048 GMT:<\/b><b>Victor Moses<\/b> is ruled out of <b>Nigeria<\/b>&#8216;s clash with Ethiopia on Sunday because he has not received official clearance from Fifa. <\/p>\n<p><b>1005 GMT:<\/b> Injury forces <b>Yaya Toure<\/b> to withdraw from the <b>Ivory Coast<\/b> squad for the qualifier against Benin. He has been replaced by newcomer <b>Max-Alain Gradel<\/b> of Leeds United. <\/p>\n<p><b>African Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Group A:<\/b> Cape Verde v Liberia, Mali v Zimbabwe <\/p>\n<p><b>Group B:<\/b> Nigeria v Ethiopia, Madagascar v Guinea <\/p>\n<p><b>Group C:<\/b> Mozambique v Zambia, Libya v Comoros <\/p>\n<p><b>Group D:<\/b> Algeria v Morocco, Tanzania v Central African Republic <\/p>\n<p><b>Group E:<\/b> DR Congo v Mauritius, Senegal v Cameroon <\/p>\n<p><b>Group F:<\/b> Burkina Faso v Namibia <\/p>\n<p><b>Group G:<\/b> South Africa v Egypt, Niger v Sierra Leone <\/p>\n<p><b>Group H:<\/b> Ivory Coast v Benin, Rwanda vs. Burundi <\/p>\n<p><b>Group I:<\/b> Sudan v Swaziland, Congo v Ghana <\/p>\n<p><b>Group J:<\/b> Guinea Bissau v Uganda, Kenya v Angola. <\/p>\n<p><b>Sixth round fixtures:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Group K<\/b>: Malawi v Togo, Chad v Botswana. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/00a961ae42001_egypt.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9436113.stm\" title=\"LATEST: Updates on Nations Cup qualifiers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LATEST: Updates on Nations Cup qualifiers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Title holders Egypt will face South Africa in Johannesburg BBC Sport brings the latest news updates ahead of the weekend&#8217;s 2012 Cup of Nations qualifiers across Africa. Follow the updates below: 1405 GMT: Defender Madjid Bougherra is ruled out of Sunday&#8217;s Group D game against Morocco because of a hamstring injury. 1300 GMT: Massive boost for Ghana as Sulley Muntari trains with the Black Stars ahead of Sunday&#8217;s Group I clash with Congo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LATEST: Updates on Nations Cup qualifiers - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/latest-updates-on-nations-cup-qualifiers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"LATEST: Updates on Nations Cup qualifiers - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Title holders Egypt will face South Africa in Johannesburg BBC Sport brings the latest news updates ahead of the weekend&#039;s 2012 Cup of Nations qualifiers across Africa. 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