Good morning Equatorial Guinea and Gabon

When the draw for the qualifiers was conducted in Lubumbashi, DRC, the home of the continent's club champions, TP Mazembe on February 20, 2010, there was little reason for Botswana to celebrate.

Out of the hat first in Group K were overwhelming favourites, Tunisia, the top seeds. Then there was Malawi, a nation fresh from participating in the 2010 AFCON edition. Minnows Chad was in the group but this was little consolation going by what happened when Botswana found itself grouped with another unheralded West African lightweight, Mauritania. Before the qualifiers began, CAF complicated the situation in Group K when it belatedly threw in veteran campaigners; Togo, one of Africa's representatives in the 2006 World Cup.