[Sports] - Africa's World Cup Qualification Draw

 FIFA World Cup 2018 Qualification Draw

FIFA released the qualification draw for the upcoming World Cup 2018 which is said to be hosted by Russia. 

qualifying round have been grouped into three phases. So the lowest ranked countries on the continent will begin the preliminary stages from the  5th-13th of October 2015. The winners of this round will join the 27 countries, ranked highest in Africa in a home and away tie.

The winners after the second round will be paired into five groups consisting of four countries each and they will face each other in a home and away ties from October 3, 2016 to November 14, 2017, with each group winner automatically qualifying to the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia.

The full draw:

Cameroon v Somalia/ Niger

Tunisia v Sudan/Mauritania

Guinea v Gambia/Namibia

Congo v São Tomé and Príncipe/ Ethiopa

Egypt v Chad/ Sierra Leone

Ghana v Comoro/Lesotho

Nigeria v Djibouti/Swaziland

Mali v Eritrea/Botswana

Congo v Seychelles/Burundi

Cote d'Ivoire v Guinea-Bassau/Liberia

Senegal v CAR/Madagascar

Cape Verde v Mauritius / Kenya

Algeria v Tanzania / Malawi

Sudan v Zambia

Libya v Rwanda

Morocco v Equatorial Guinea

Mozambique v Gabon

Benin v Burkina Faso

Togo v Uganda

Angola v South Africa

Hmm, Lesotho again for Ghana?? I hope so..