
Last week’s Fifa world rankings determined that Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria and Tunisia are the seeded sides and will be in Pot 1 – leaving Egypt, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Senegal and Ethiopia in Pot 2. Seeded and unseeded sides will be paired, creating five two-leg ties with a separate draw determining which country plays at home first.
Matches are scheduled for 11-15 October and 15-19 November and the five overall winners qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Only Burkina Faso and Ethiopia have never played at the World Cup before.