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It is the Togolese star’s second suspension of the campaign, after he was banned for three matches in September for stamping on Robin van Persie during a controversial game against Arsenal at Eastlands.
Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been handed a four-game ban by the FA following his red card at Stoke City on Wednesday night.
City, according to The Manchester Evening News, did consider appealing against the card, awarded when the player swung his arm into the throat of Stoke defender Ryan Shawcross.
City will now be without Adebayor for five weeks, and he will miss Saturday’s crucial clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Officials for the Mexican team Club America said Tuesday that Juan Carlos Silva was in good condition and the gunshot wound to his buttocks was not life threatening. They said the attack took place Monday night in Mexico City in an attempt to steal Silva’s vehicle.
Juan Carlos is a teammate of the Paraguayan soccer star who was shot last week in a Mexico City bar has been shot during a robbery attempt.Salvador Cabanas was shot in the head and is recovering at a Mexico City hospital. He has begun to eat and talk with family members.

Egypt made a strong start Tuesday in the defense of its African Cup of Nations title, coming from behind to beat Nigeria in the opening game of Group C.
Nigeria, looking to win its third title, had opened the scoring in the 12th minute thanks to a strike by Chinedu Obasi.
Emad Meteab, Ahmed Hassan and Mohammed Naguy all scored for Egypt, which has won the tournament a record six times.
On Monday, Ivory Coast, the favorite in the tournament, which is held in even-numbered years, missed more than a dozen chances and managed only a scoreless draw against Burkina Faso in their opening match in Cabinda, where an attack on the Togo team bus last week left three people dead.
Ivory Coast will have to defeat Ghana on Friday in Cabinda in its last Group B match to be guaranteed a quarterfinal spot. Ghana was to have played its first game Monday against Togo, but that game was scratched after Togo withdrew from the tournament.

The United States will play England, Slovenia and Algeria in the first round of next year’s World Cup in what appears to be a relatively easy group.
The U.S. opens against England in Rustenburg on June 12, their first World Cup matchup since the Americans’ 1-0 upset victory at the 1950 tournament in Brazil.
The “Group of Death” for this year’s World Cup will be Group G, which includes Brazil, Portugal, the Ivory Coast and North Korea.
Brazil, Portugal and the Ivory Coast are all ranked in the top 16 in FIFA’s world rankings, while North Korea figures to have a tough time picking up any points.
Defending champions Italy received a favorable draw in Group F with Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia, while 2006 runners-up France were placed in Group A with host nation South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay.
Argentina will be heavy favorites to win Group B as they will play Nigeria, South Korea and Greece. Diego Maradona’s team struggled in qualifying but they were still seeded by FIFA and now look likely to advance to the knockout round.
Group D will be a difficult group as three of the four teams advanced to the last 16 in the 2006 World Cup. Germany enters as the top team, while Ghana and Australia were both second-round participants four years ago. Serbia lost all three of its group-stage matches in 2006, but they easily won their European qualification group, which included France and Romania.
European champions Spain will be happy with their draw in Group H as they will play Switzerland, Honduras and Chile, while Group E features the Netherlands, which is ranked third in the world by FIFA, as well as Denmark, Japan and Cameroon.

Egypt, whose only World Cup appearances were in 1934 and 1990, forced the playoff by beating Algeria 2-0 on an injury-time goal in Cairo last Saturday. That left the nations tied atop Africa Group C and set off several violent outbursts.
Algeria qualified for its first World Cup since 1986, beating Egypt 1-0 in a tiebreaker playoff Wednesday night on Antar Yahya’s goal from an acute angle in the 39th minute.
The embassy and sites of Egyptian businesses such as Egypt Air and telecom group Orascom were attacked on Saturday. Several Algerian players had been injured before the match in Cairo as Egypt fans pelted Algeria’s team bus with rocks.
Security was stepped up near the Egyptian Embassy in the Algerian capital, Algiers, but there were no signs of violence. The streets of Algiers quickly filled with celebrating citizens, some setting off fireworks. Traffic came to a standstill in the center of town.
Algeria, which also appeared in the 1982 World Cup, completed the African field for next year’s tournament, joining Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and host South Africa.

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