Central African Republic

An impressive showing from Madagascar saw them take the lead in their World Cup qualifying tie, while there were wins for Botswana and Chad.

Two second-half goals gave Nigeria a winning start to AFCON qualifying against Chad, while Algeria, Mali and Senegal all enjoyed victories.

Stephen Keshi Just over four months since the Africa Cup of Nations final, qualification for the next staging of the tournament gets under way this week.

Mozambique Mozambique put a foot in the second round of Africa Cup of Nations qualifying with a 5-0 first-round first-leg thrashing of South Sudan.

South Africa Africa Cup of Nations champions Nigeria will face South Africa and Sudan when they bid to reach the 2015 tournament in Morocco.

Uganda Geoffrey Massa's goal sent Uganda into the second round of Africa Cup of Nations qualifying after they beat Madagascar on away goals.

Equatorial Guinea become the first team to be knocked out of qualifying for AFCON 2017, while Zimbabwe march on.

Ghana and Liberia collected maximum points on Thursday as they chase qualification for next year's Africa Cup of Nations.

Ivory Coast are without a win in their first two African Cup of Nations qualifying matches after they were held by Sierra Leone.

Morocco Abderrazak Hamdallah's hat-trick helped Morocco to a comfortable 4-0 win over Central African Republic on Thursday.