Black Stars will hold their first training session this evening as they begin preparations ahead of the Nations Cup later this month.

Kwesi Appiah and the technical team will oversee the shake-up exercise which is scheduled for the Jeber Ali training Facility in Dubai.

The team will be in UAE for three weeks before departing to Egypt for the tournament.

Ghana are scheduled to play two pre-tournament friendlies against Namibia and South Africa in the Gulf country.

The Black Stars boss has named 29-man provisional squad for the training camp, and is expected to use the friendlies to asses his squad’s readiness for the continental showpiece which starts on June 21.

He is expected to name his final squad for the tournament on June 10, 2019 as per the CAF regulations.