Former African champions Cameroon will bid to host the 2016 African Nations Cup tournament, Sports Minister Augustin Edjoa said.

The central African country has hosted the tournament just once, in 1972, when it was eliminated 1-0 in the semi-finals by Congo Republic who went on to win the title.

Cameroon is one of three countries that have won the African Nations Cup four times and the only African country to have been five times to the World Cup finals, where it reached the quarter-finals in 1990.

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