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THE Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced how Thursday’s final qualifiers’ draws for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations would be done.According to CAF, the 15 seeded teams represented by 15 balls will be in Pot A, while 15 other teams will be in Pot B. Pot C will contain a total of 30 balls representing teams from both Pots A and B.If ball A is drawn first from Pot C, it means that the team drawn from Pot A will play its first match at home and the team drawn from Pot B will play its second match at home. If ball B is drawn first from Pot C, the team drawn from Pot B will play its first match at home and the team from Pot A will play its second match at home.The seeded teams are Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia and Zambia. The teams not seeded are Botswana, Cape Verde, Central Africa Republic, Ethiopia, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, DR Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe.The winners of these third round qualifiers will play between September and October while the winners would be decided on knockout basis. Thursday’s draws will be staged in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 2013 AFCON will kick off in South Africa on January 19.
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