Oluwashina Okeleji

This World Cup will be the third that the Teran­ga Li­ons have qual­i­fied for, and first as reign­ing African cham­pi­ons.

De­spon­dence and dis­ar­ray are rife in the Ghana team as the World Cup ap­proach­es.

African na­tions will have to punch above their weight as none has made it past the last-eight of the World Cup.

In Nige­ria, ex-play­ers al­lege they were dis­crim­i­nat­ed against by of­fi­cials over real or per­ceived sex­u­al pref­er­ences.

Ghana be­came first African na­tion to qual­i­fy for the 2022 World Cup, but its suc­cess was over­shad­owed by fan vi­o­lence.

There’s more than a tick­et to Qatar at stake in Tues­day’s crunch game as both na­tions fight for over­all brag­ging rights.

For­mer cap­tain led Sene­gal to AF­CON tri­umph last month. Now, the team must beat Egypt again to qual­i­fy for the World Cup

Nige­ria got knocked out of the AF­CON in the last-16. Some fans de­cid­ed to take out their frus­tra­tion on so­cial me­dia.

Al Jazeera lists down teams who qual­i­fied for the last-16, shock elim­i­na­tions and con­tro­ver­sies from the AF­CON.

Away from the spot­light on Salah, Mane and Mahrez, here are some oth­er foot­ballers who could light up AF­CON.