2014 World Cup: 10 African teams advance to group stage - Ten African teams have advanced to next year's group stage of the qualifying series for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The 10 teams are the aggregate winners of the home-and-away matches played in the preliminaries, which rounded off on Tuesday except for the return-leg match between Ethiopia and Somalia.

The qualifiers are Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Togo, Lesotho, Congo, Kenya and DR Congo.

Together with Liberia which drew a bye into the group stage, following Mauritius' withdrawal, and the winner of the yet-to-be played Ethiopia-Somalia return match, 12 teams overall will advance to the group stage to join the 28 other teams that also drew a bye. The 40 teams will be divided into 10 groups of four teams each, and the group winners will progress to the third and final stage, where the five aggregate winners of the home-and-away format will qualify to represent Africa at the 2014 World Cup. Following is how the teams qualified, after Tuesday's second leg, preliminary matches, whose results are given:

Congo               1-1 Sao Tome and Principe

- Congo qualifies 6-1 on aggregate

Rwanda             3-1 Eritrea

- Rwanda qualifies 4-2 on aggregate

Togo                  1-0 Guinea-Bissau

- Togo qualifies 2-1 on aggregate

Congo DR         5-1 Swaziland

- Congo DR qualifies 8-2 on aggregate

Madagascar      2-1 Equatorial Guinea

- Equatorial Guinea qualifies 3-2 on aggregate

Kenya               4-0 Seychelles

- Kenya qualifies 7-0 on aggregate

Tanzania           0-1 Chad

- Tanzania qualifies on away goals rule , after both drew 2-2 on aggregate

Mozambique     4-1 Comoros

- Mozambique qualifies 5-1 on aggregate

Namibia            4-0 Djibouti

- Namibia qualifies 8-0 on aggregate

Burundi             2-1 Lesotho

- Lesotho qualifies on away goals rule, after both teams drew 2-2 on aggregate.

Pana 16/11/2011