JOHANNESBURG: Algeria, Nigeria and Cameroon—three of the five African qualifiers for the last World Cup—were drawn together on Friday (Saturday in Manila) in a group from which only the winners go to the 2018 finals in Russia.

Group B was completed by Zambia, shock winners of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, after a one-hour ceremony in Cairo.

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