The draw will be staged at the five-star Marriot Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, from 4pm Nigerian time.
This stage of the preliminary competition will involve 20 teams drawn into five four-team groups, with sides playing each other home and away on a round-robin basis. All five group winners will qualify automatically for Russia 2018.
According to CAF, the teams in Pot 4 will be drawn first. The team drawn first in Pot 4 will be in Group A and their exact position in the group will be determined by a ball drawn from a second pot, which has group positions 1-4
The team drawn second from Pot 4 will be in Group B and the same process repeated to determine their position in this group.
The same procedure will be repeated for the teams in the other three Pots.
The Seedings for the draw
Pot 1: Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia
Pot 2: Cape Verde, Egypt, DR Congo, Nigeria, Mali
Pot 3: Cameroon, Morocco, Guinea, South Africa, Congo
Pot 4: Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Gabon, Libya
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