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Daily Monitor
Uganda will be pitted against any of the top 10 teams in Africa when lots for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals are drawn today. African top ranked nations including champions Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Cameroon, Ghana and Algeria are in Pot 1. Others are Mali, hosts Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and DR Congo. Sixteen-ranked Uganda are in Pot 2 alongside South Africa, Benin, Kenya, Cape Verde and Gabon among others. Pots 3 and 4 have lower ranked nations in that order. The 48 countries will be drawn into twelve groups of four teams, from which the best 24 will qualify for th…