Togo withdrew from this year's tournament following the deadly gun attack on their team bus in Angola.

An assistant coach and the team's press officer - plus a driver - were killed when Togo's bus was fired upon on the eve of the tournament in January.

The Confederation of African Football later decided Togo should be penalised for pulling out.

Togo are appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the decision, although their hopes were dealt a blow yesterday when CAS dismissed the country's appeal for provisional measures to be taken to ensure their place in the preliminary draw for the 2012 tournament.

Manchester City striker Adebayor said: "I don't know how to understand it.

"We were going to play in the African Cup of Nations, we got a terrorist attack, two people are dead, our goalkeeper is still in hospital - we don't know if he can play football again - some players got a bullet in their body and what happened next, we got banned."

Speaking to BBC Radio Five Live, Adebayor said: "I try every single day and every single night to understand what is going on but I can't. We got two members of our staff gun-shot dead, we're not talking about injured or whatever. Dead."

He added: "There is something wrong in Africa."

Adebayor feared he would die, and is thankful he survived but admits the experience was so harrowing it continues to affect him.

"Psychologically it's very difficult," he said.

"But we are footballers and as a footballer I told myself, 'Right, now you have a chance, one more chance again to be alive, keep on doing what you like most and enjoy yourself to the end of your life'."

He explained, though, that scoring a goal does not bring the same emotions as it did prior to being caught up in the traumatic incident.

"Whenever I score I can hear the noise but inside my body it doesn't give me anything at all," Adebayor said. "It's just like something is blocked."