Alongside Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria, Egypt were seeded first for the African third stage World Cup qualifying groups. African Football Federation (CAF) spokesman Sherif Ahmed told FilGoal.com that that the seeding was solely based on FIFA's latest rankings, were the five nations came as the continent's best ranked teams. The 20 qualifying teams from the second round will be drawn in a five-group third stage with each of the first seeds leading a group. While the winner of each group will qualify to the 2010World Cup, the first three teams will make it to the 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola. Third round qualification seeds: First seeds: Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon. Second seeds: Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Algeria, Guinea. Third seeds: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Zambia, Kenya, Benin. Fourth seeds: Rwanda, Togo, Mozambique, Sudan, Malawi.