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Congo coach, Claude Le Roy, has complained about lack of hotel rooms for five of his 35-man team in Equatorial Guinea for the Africa Cup of Nations.

The team arrived at the port city of Bata to hotels lacking running water and with exposed electrical cables.

“There are not enough places for my staff and it’s even difficult to find rooms for the players,” Le Roy told the BBC.

“The electricity is terrible, everything is exposed. I wanted to wash my hands. There was no water.

“Some of my assistants went around to see if there were rooms available somewhere but it seems very very difficult.”

And Le Roy also confirmed that his team had arrived a day before they were officially expected because he envisaged organisational bottleneck.

“I’m not disappointed, that’s what I was expecting,” he said.

“I don’t want a big five-star hotel. I just want something very clean.”

Equatorial Guinea is hosting the three-week championship at short notice after initial host Morocco was stripped of the right in November.

Congo will play the host in the opening game on Saturday.