Cameroon Keep Up Winning Run To Secure Qualification

Cameroon qualified for the MTN Africa Cup of Nations finals as they kept up their 100 percent record in the qualifiers with a 2-1 home triumph over Rwanda in Garoua on Sunday.

Cameroon, four-times winners of the continent’s top footballing prize, overcame temperatures creeping towards 40 degrees in only their second ever international in the northern town as well as the absence of key striker Samuel Eto’o.

With Eto’o playing for Barcelona in Sunday’s Spanish league decider, his replacement Mohamadou Idrissou soared onto the end of a free kick from Chelsea’s Geremi to open the score in the 34th minute.

Geremi added the second with a trademark free kick bulleted in from some 30 metres out three minutes into the second half.

But Cameroon had to endure an edgy finish after Jimmy Gatete pulled one back for the bottom-placed Rwandans in the 78th minute.

Cameroon qualify for a 15th appearance at the finals with 15 points in the Group Five standings.