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| - Africa Cup of Nations state of play Thursday -- halfway through matchday 5 -- in the struggle to fill 24 places at the tournament next January: Qualified (14) Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Comoros, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Tunisia, Zimbabwe Contenders (23) Benin, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Uganda Eliminated (10) Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eswatini, Libya, Namibia, Sao Tome e Principe, South Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia Disqualified (1) Chad Note: Djibouti, Liberia, Mauritius and Seychelles were eliminated in a preliminary round and Eritrea and Somalia did not enter afp
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