The Cameroon coach, Rigobert Song, has included the Manchester United goalkeeper André Onana but dropped the Bayern Munich striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting from his squad for next month’s Africa Cup of Nations finals. Onana, 27, had walked out on Cameroon after a row with Song at last year’s World Cup in Qatar but returned after a reconciliation with the coach to help Cameroon qualify for the Cup of Nations finals in Ivory Coast, which get under way on 13 January. Choupo-Moting, who made his debut for the Indomitable Lions at the 2010 World Cup, paid a price for having missed Cameroon’s past three outings. “Choupo Moting is a very good player. But my staff and I want the continuity of recent times. He is an important player, but we had to make a choice in line with what we have been doing for some time now,” Song told a press conference as he named his 27-man squad on Thursday. Cameroon will be without the Brentford striker Bryan Mbeumo, who underwent surgery on his right ankle earlier this month. Song sprung a surprise with the selection of Wilfried Nathan Doualla, 17, who plays in the Cameroon league and has never previously been called up. It will be a fifth Cup of Nations finals appearance for the captain, Vincent Aboubakar. Cameroon play Guinea on 15 January in their opening Group C game before also meeting the holders, Senegal, and the Gambia. Morocco coach Walid Regragui has also selected Manchester United’s on-loan midfielder Sofyan Amrabat in his squad for the tournament. Fourteen of the players selected were at the Qatar World Cup, where Morocco did superbly well, coming fourth. Burnley winger Anass Zaroury is left out but other young talents, including PSV Eindhoven’s Ismael Saibari, 22, and Real Betis defender Chadi Riad, 20, are included. Ivory Coast’s Galatasaray winger Wilfried Zaha has not been called up by coach Jean-Louis Gasset in the country’s 27-man squad. The 31-year-old, who moved to Turkey from Crystal Palace in the close season, has only played in two friendlies for Ivory Coast this year, missing their Cup of Nations qualifiers and last month’s first round of World Cup qualifying. Gasset has included Nottingham Forest’s Serge Aurier, Ibrahim Sangaré and Willy Boly plus Al-Ahli midfielder Franck Kessié and Trapzonspor winger Nicolas Pépé, who returns after a year’s absence. Forwards Sébastien Haller of Borussia Dortmund and RB Salzburg’s Karim Konaté also feature for the hosts, who face Guinea Bissau in the tournament’s opener. Chancel Mbemba will captain the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 24-man squad for the tournament, but there was no place for Luton Town’s Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu in the selection named by the coach, Sébastien Desabre. He also left out the former England under-21 international Axel Tuanzebe, who had been named in the pre-selected squad earlier this month, plus the ex-Fulham midfielder Neeskens Kebano. Meanwhile, South Africa have left Burnley striker Lyle Foster out of their squad for the Cup of Nations after his club said mental health issues made it impossible for him to travel. Foster had been named in the preliminary squad despite South Africa being told by Burnley that he would not be available. He was sidelined by the Premier League club in November due to what they said was a recurrence of a mental health issue. However, the 23-year-old returned to action on 16 December against Everton, travelled to London for the win over Fulham last week and started the Boxing Day game at home to Liverpool. Hugo Broos, the South Africa manager, said on Thursday that he was surprised Foster had played the second half of the home defeat by Everton and so contacted Vincent Kompany, the Burnley coach. “He explained to me that “OK, he played 45 minutes, but he wasn’t ready to travel,” Broos told a press conference as he named his 23-man squad. “There is still the danger that he could have the same problems he had two months ago. So our doctor had contact with the doctors at Burnley. I got the medical report where it stated it was impossible for Foster to be at Afcon and this is medical.”