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• July 22, 2022

  Kenya Gets USAID Drought Aid

  U.S. development agency USAID will provide Kenya with $255 million in emergency and development assistance to tackle drought, administrator Samantha Power said on Friday.

• July 22, 2022

  Mane Named CAF "Footballer of the Year"

  Sadio Mane was named African Footballer of Year on Thursday after a season in which he kicked the winning penalty for Senegal as they claimed their first Africa Cup of Nations title and repeated the feat when they secured World Cup qualification.

• July 22, 2022

  Google Downed in Donetsk

  Russian-backed separatists in a breakaway region of eastern Ukraine have blocked access to the search engine Google, their leader said on Friday, citing what he calls "disinformation".

• July 22, 2022

  Africa CDC Gets World Bank Funding

  Africa's main public health body, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), will receive $100 million from the World Bank to help African countries prepare for, detect and respond to disease outbreaks.

• July 22, 2022

  Kyiv Claims It Can Mount Robust Response

  In its Friday morning update, Ukraine's general staff said Russian forces backed by heavy artillery fire continued seeking gains towards the cities of Kramatorsk and Bakhmut and the Vuhlehirska thermal power plant in Donetsk province, but made no notable progress on the ground.

• July 22, 2022

  Ukraine, Russia Sign Grain Export Agreement

  Russia and Ukraine have agreed to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports, especially to hungry African nations who have been blocked from getting shipments by the Russian-initiated Ukraine conflict.

• July 21, 2022

  Nigeria Considers Ban on Mining Amid Insecurity

  Nigeria's government is considering suspending mining in the country as it is being used to finance attacks that have fueled insecurity, the justice minister said on Thursday.

• July 21, 2022

  Cape Town Robot Wields Surgical Skills

  A surgical team led by Dr. Tim Forgan uses the da Vinci Xi robot to assist in removing a cancerous rectal tumor from a female patient at Tygerberg public hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

• July 21, 2022

  South Africa Struggles to Break Coal Dependency

  South Africa, where daily blackouts are a fact of life, knows better than most that it cannot rely on coal power. But just when its plans to shift to renewable energy, rising costs linked to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine threaten further delay.

• July 21, 2022

  Wall Street Sees Social Media Slowdown

  Wall Street is bracing for the slowest global revenue growth in the history of the social media sector, as intensifying competition from TikTok and Apple in advertising threaten to compound economic woes in the second quarter.

• July 20, 2022

  EU Taking Bigger Apple Bite

  EU antitrust regulators are set to beef up an investigation into Apple triggered by Spotify with new evidence but not new charges, in the hope of speeding up the case, people familiar with the matter said.

• July 20, 2022

  Ruto Promises China Transparency

  Kenya's deputy president and presidential aspirant William Ruto said he will publish government contracts with China and deport Chinese nationals working illegally if he is elected on August 9, promises likely to resonate with citizens pummeled by mounting debt and the skyrocketing cost of living.

• July 20, 2022

  Zambia to Address Debt, Unlock IMF Loan

  Zambia's creditors are expected to commit to debt relief needed to unlock $1.4 billion from the IMF on Wednesday or Thursday, two sources familiar with the situation said, as the country and its lenders seek to end a drawn-out restructuring process.

• July 20, 2022

  African States Called to Back Malaria Vax

  Nine months after the world's first malaria vaccine was recommended for use, international vaccine alliance Gavi invited countries to apply for financial support to roll out the jab, particularly targeting young children in Africa.

• July 20, 2022

  Biden Sets December Africa Summit

  U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that the United States will bring together leaders from across the African continent for a major summit in December in Washington to discuss pressing challenges from food security to climate change.

• July 20, 2022

  Rwanda One-Way Gets September UK Court Review

  London's High Court said on Wednesday a judicial review into the legality of the British government's plan to deport migrants to Rwanda will start on Sept. 5.

• July 19, 2022

  New Libya Oil Chief Digs In

  Libya's new National Oil Corporation (NOC) chief Farhat Bengdara on Tuesday rejected challenges to his appointment as most of the company's major subsidiaries publicly acknowledged his leadership and the new board.

• July 19, 2022

  Tanzania Gets IMF Help

  The International Monetary Fund on Monday said its executive board approved a $1.04 billion, 40-month Extended Credit Facility loan arrangement for Tanzania, with an immediate disbursement of about $151.7 million.

• July 19, 2022

  Shell, Eni Acquittals Stand in Corruption Trial

  Prosecutors from the Appeal Court in Milan signalled on Tuesday they did not want to challenge the acquittal of Eni and Shell , as well as managers including Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi, in a Nigerian corruption case.

• July 18, 2022

  Guinea Workers Idled During Dispute

  Chinese-led Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) has put workers on forced leave with the prospect of layoffs if a dispute with Guinea's government over infrastructure for a massive iron project is not resolved, three sources told Reuters.

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