It was used to determine which African national basketball teams would qualify for the 2015 FIBA Africa Championship.
Twelve more teams claimed spots in the tournament through Zonal Qualifying.
Qualified as the host nation: From qualification: Selected as wild cards: Zone 1 was played from January 6 to February 15 2015 in Algiers, Algeria and Salé, Morocco.
These include South Africa, Algeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Guinea, Rwanda and Senegal.
[7] On early May, it was announced that Algeria, Central African Republic and Senegal were chosen by the Africa Board as the wild cards.