| Final | time | L |  | 1. South Africa |  RSA | 3:19.69 | 4 |  |  Douglas Erasmus 50.29s, Clayton Jimmie 49.67s, Calvyn Justus 50.05s, Caydon Muller 49.68s |  | 2. Egypt |  EGY | 3:20.22 | 5 |  |  Omar Eissa 50.61s, Mohamed Khaled 49.98s, Marwan El Kamash 50.27s, Mohamed Samy 49.36s |  | 3. Algeria |  ALG | 3:26.16 | 6 |  |  Lies Abdelghani Nefsi, Riyad Djendouci, Nazim Belkhodja 52.28s, Badis Djendouci 51.02s |  | 4. Tunisia |  TUN | 3:28.18 | 3 |  | 5. Senegal |  SEN | 3:33.32 | 2 |  | 6. Mozambique |  MOZ | 3:41.74 | 7 |  | 7. Sudan |  SUD | 4:27.44 | 8 |  | -. Kenya |  KEN | DQ | 1 |   
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