Ghana face Congo, Uganda, Egypt in World Cup qualifiers

Ghana's Black Stars will face  Congo, Uganda and familiar foes Egypt in Group E of the  2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign after the draw was held in the Egyptian capital of Cairo yesterday as 20 sides from Africa were paired in five four-team groups.

Yesterday’s draw threw up some mouth-watering heavyweight clashes, with Cameroun, Algeria and Nigeria drawn together in Group B, and Group C pairing Côte d'Ivoire and Morocco. 

Outsiders Libya and Burkina Faso, meanwhile, will be hoping to upset the odds against the likes of Tunisia and Senegal respectively.

This is the decisive stage of an African Zone preliminary competition that began last October, with the 20 teams still in contention having been drawn into five four-team groups. They will now play each other home and away on a round-robin basis, with all five group winners qualifying automatically for Russia 2018. 

Matches will kick off between October 2016 and November 2017.

—fifa.com