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Live Reporting

Emlyn Begley

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  1. Goodnight

    That's the end of this live page now, thanks for joining in the debate. They're still waffling on but I've stopped listening.

    Check out our story about the draw here.

    Follow the second half of Leicester v Newcastle here.

    See you in the summer for the Afcon itself.

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    ABDALLAH SHAKSI: Tanzania it's your chance now.

  3. Which Premier League players could be there?

    Egypt: Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal)

    Senegal: Sadio Mane (Liverpool), Idrissa Gueye (Everton), Cheikhou Kouyate (Crystal Palace)

    Morocco: Romain Saiss (Wolves)

    Nigeria: Alex Iwobi (Arsenal), Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester)

    Algeria: Riyad Mahrez (Man City)

    Ivory Coast: Serge Aurier (Tottenham), Eric Bailly (Man Utd), Jean Michael Seri (Fulham), Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)

    Kenya: Victor Wanyama (Tottenham)

    Ghana: Christian Atsu (Newcastle), Jeffrey Schlupp (Crystal Palace), Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace)

    Cameroon: Gaetong Bong (Brighton), Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa (Fulham)

    DR Congo: Arthur Masuaku (West Ham)

    Benin: Steve Mounie (Huddersfield)

    Guinea: Naby Keita (Liverpool)

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    Ismael Kiyonga: Looks tough group for @UgandaCranes but you win by beating the best. Let's do it the hard way Uganda

    Tarek Abu-Taleb: Terrible idea to expand to 24 teams. Expect a lot of poor matches and empty stadiums.

    Dennis Adjei: Am expecting my country Ghana to win this years Afcon in Egypt. Since 1982 Ghana hasn't won the trophy making it 37 years of not winning the competition.

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    Matthew Kenyon

    BBC Africa Sport in Egypt

    Morocco with Ivory Coast! Morocco coach Herve Renard is going for an unprecedented treble of three Nations Cup wins with three different teams. He won it with the Elephants - and Zambia.

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    Yaya Toure actually dropped a bit of the ball as he drew Morocco in his native Ivory Coast's group. But he didn't drop the piece of paper with Morocco on it...

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    We're done.

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    Group A: Egypt, DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe

    Group B: Nigeria, Guinea, Madagascar, Burundi

    Group C: Senegal, Algeria, Kenya, Tanzania

    Group D: Morocco, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Namibia

    Group E: Tunisia,Mali, Mauritania, Angola

    Group F: Cameroon,Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Bissau

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    And now here come the top dogs.

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    Matthew Kenyon

    BBC Africa Sport in Egypt

    Mohamed Kotb of BBC Arabic says he’s happy with Egypt’s group.

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    Group A: Egypt, DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe

    Group B: Guinea, Madagascar,Burundi

    Group C: Algeria, Kenya, Tanzania

    Group D: Ivory Coast, South Africa, Namibia

    Group E: Mali, Mauritania, Angola

    Group F: Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Bissau

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    And now the second seeds.

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    Matthew Kenyon

    BBC Africa Sport in Egypt

    Wow! Uganda against Egypt. They met in World Cup qualifying and Uganda won in Kampala but were beaten in Cairo as we mentioned earlier.

    Lots of neighbours and regional link-ups already. Kenya with Tanzania in C, SA and Namibia in D.

    And Mauritania, first time qualifiers, are in the same group as Angola, who they qualified with.

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    Group A: Egypt, Uganda, Zimbabwe

    Group B: Madagascar, Burundi

    Group C: Kenya,Tanzania

    Group D: South Africa, Namibia

    Group E: Mauritania, Angola

    Group F: Benin,Guinea-Bissau

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    Here we go with the third seeds now.

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    Matthew Kenyon

    BBC Africa Sport in Egypt

    Zimbabwe team manager Wellington Mpandare told me a few days ago that they feared no-one! And they have the hosts.

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    Group B: Burundi

    Group C: Tanzania

    Group D: Namibia

    Group E: Angola

    Group F: Guinea-Bissau

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    Group A: Egypt, Zimbabwe

    This is the only group we'll know the top seeds for at this stage

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    Here we go.

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    Fred Honsa: the BBC and Emlyn Begley have learnt tonight that there's the African way of doing things