With the recent World Cup qualifying matches having taken place earlier this month, along with other International friendly matches having been played, the African Nations have been generally moving up in the World ranking's in the past few months, seeing Cameroon topping the African teams in 22nd place, going up 6 places in the latest FIFA World Football ranking's.

The Sudan have gone up 9 places, and Tunisia are up 8 places, only one behind Cameroon's "Lions of Teranga". The biggest movers in the past couple of months are current World Cup Africa Zone Group 1 leaders Togo.

Togo's "Hawks", with their World Cup qualification successes, are up a massive 12 places, Ghana and Angola are both up 6 places, with Mali gaining 5 places in the FIFA World ranking's, amongst others.

The big dropper's in the Africa Zone are Zambia, who have dropped down 8 places. Kenya are down 7 notches, with the "Elephants" of the Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, South Africa, and Libya all slipping down in the World football 'charts'.

African team's current ranking's - September 2005 (FIFA World ranking's in brackets):

1. Cameroon (22)
2. Tunisia (23)
3. Nigeria (29)
4. Egypt (31)
5. Senegal (35)
6. Morocco (36)
7. South Africa (42)
8. Zimbabwe (49)
9. Ivory Coast (50)
10. Togo (54)
11. Mali (55)
12. Ghana (62)
13. Zambia (64)
14. Angola (65)
15. DR Congo (72)
16. Libya (80)
17. Algeria (83)
18. Kenya (87)
19. Burkina Faso (89)
19. Guinea (89)
21. Sudan (93)
22. Botswana (96)
23. Gabon (105)
24. Rwanda (106)
25. Malawi (108)
26. Uganda (110)
27. Congo (113)
28. Cape Verde Islands (122)
29. Benin (126)
30. Ethiopia (128)
31. Mozambique (130)
32. Liberia (132)
32. Swaziland (132)
34. Burundi (142)
35. Mauritius (145)
36. Lesotho (147)
37. Madagascar (150)
38. Chad (157)
39. Namibia (159)
40. Gambia (160)
41. Sierra Leone (162)
42. Eritrea (170)
43. Equatorial Guinea (171)
44. Seychelles (173)
45. Tanzania (174)
46. Niger (175)
47. Mauritania (176)
48. Central African Republic (183)
49. Somalia (188)
50. Guinea-Bissau (191)
51. São Tomé e Príncipe (196)
52. Djibouti (201)

The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on the 19th of October 2005.

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