Egypt beat Malawi in Cairo to move to the top of Group 12

Ivory Coast and Guinea led a deluge of home goals on Sunday as a marathon month of 2010 World Cup qualifiers drew to a close.

There was home success in all but one of the day's 12 games and the Ivorians and Guinea both scored 4-0 home wins to go top of the standings in their respective groups.

But Ethiopia overshadowed them with a 6-1 win over Mauritania while the DR Congo were 5-1 victors at home to hapless Djibouti.

Ismael Bangoura netted a hat-trick for Guinea in their win over Namibia in Conakry while Shabani Nonda got a trio of goals for the Congolese in Kinshasa as Djibouti's tally of goals conceded in the qualifiers rose to 23 in four matches.

Sekou Cisse grabbed two in the Ivorians' win over Botswana in Abidjan while Mozambique won their first game in the same group with a 3-0 home triumph over Madagascar.

Benin, Egypt and Ghana all won 2-0 to keep them well in contention.

Michael Essien was in the Ghana team that won in Accra

New Barcelona signing Seydou Keita scored twice for Mali and Frederic Kanoute claimed the other in a 3-0 home win over Sudan in Bamako.

Reigning African Footballer of the Year Kanoute has now got five goals in four qualifying matches.

Emad Moteab scored both for Egypt as they beat Malawi 2-0 in a Group 12 game in Cairo.

The only anomaly was the potentially vital away point picked up by Kenya in their Group Two match at Zimbabwe.

It sees the Harambee Stars level on points with Guinea.

The Group Three encounter between Angola and Uganda was postponed to Monday after the refereeing team from Nigeria failed to arrive in Luanda on time.

Nigeria became the first side to make sure of a place in the final phase of the African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup after Saturday's matches.

The 12 African qualifying groups will provide 20 teams to go through to the last phase of qualifiers later this year.

The 12 group winners and eight best runners-up progress.

You can get more details on all the games using the links on the right hand side of the page, and tune in to Fast Track on the BBC World Service at 1600 GMT on Monday for more analysis of all the weekend's action.