1 Trophy, 6 Favourites, 9 Champions

As the Harmattan haze continues to hover around the National Mosque in Abuja, Nigeria, so is football temperatures of supporters soaring across the entire continent as the 2015 African Cup of Nations draws closer.

From January 17-10 February, 2015, sixteen countries will assemble in Equatorial Guinea to fight for the most prestigious football trophy in Africa (African Cup of Nations).

From the lenses of www.sports24gh.com's El-Amisty Nobo, the tournament is going to be a straight fight between six countries.

They are; the Desert Foxes of Algeria, the Leopards of Congo DR, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, the Elephant of Ivory Coast, the Bafana Bafana of South Africa and the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia.

The 16-tier tournament features nine past winners of the coveted trophy. They are; Ghana, Cameroon, Zambia, Congo DR, Tunisia, Algeria, Ivory Coast, South Africa, Congo.

But Ghana and Cameroon stand above the rest. Each has lifted the trophy on four occasions. www.sports24gh.com will bring you a full preview of the various groups from Monday. The groups are as follows;

Group A

Equatorial Guinea Congo

Gabon

Burkina Faso

Group B

Zambia

Congo DR

Tunisia

Cape Verde

Group C

Ghana

Senegal

Algeria

South Africa

Group D

Cote d'Ivoire

Guinea

Mali

Cameroon