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• July 18, 2022

  Malaysia Seizes Suspected African Animal Parts

  Malaysian customs officials said Monday they seized a stash of rare animal parts worth $18 million thought to have come from Africa, including elephant tusks, rhino horns and pangolin scales.

• July 18, 2022

  Nigerians Poised to Protest University Shutdowns

  The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will embark on two-day protest on July 26 to demonstrate against a six-month shutdown of public universities across the country due to pay disagreements between the government and teachers, it said on Sunday.

• July 18, 2022

  Another Khartoum Clash

  Security forces fired tear gas as Sudanese protesters marched in the capital Khartoum on Sunday against the country's military leadership, holding it responsible for an outbreak of violence in Blue Nile State.

• July 17, 2022

  Guinea Junta Names Acting PM

  The military junta in Guinea has appointed an acting prime minister while prime minister Mohamed Beavogui is absent, state television said late on Saturday.

• July 17, 2022

  Ghana: Marburg Confirmed

  Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after two people who later died tested positive for the virus earlier this month.

• July 16, 2022

  Kaduna Priests Abducted

  Two Nigerian Catholic priests have been abducted in Nigeria's northern state of Kaduna, the local diocese said, nearly two weeks after another priest was taken from his parish in the same state.

• July 15, 2022

  Ramaphosa Vows to Solve Power Cuts

  The South African government will soon propose new strategies to deal with the nation's greatest power crisis to date, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday.

• July 15, 2022

  Niger Keen for Military Partnership With France

  As Niger continues to build up its military to combat Islamist insurgents, the defense minister Alkassoum Indatou said on Friday that his country's army needs French assistance.

• July 15, 2022

  Ivory Coast President Meets Predecessors for Reconciliation

  Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara held a rare meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and longtime rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie in an effort to reconcile the West African nation ahead of elections in 2025.

• July 15, 2022

  Jihadis Suspected in Togo Slaughter

  Armed men killed at least 12 civilians in overnight raids on villages in northern Togo, where Islamist militants have staged several recent attacks, two local activists and a medical source said on Friday.

• July 15, 2022

  SADC Forces Stay in Mozambique

  The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have agreed to extend their troop deployment in Mozambique for another month to help it fight an Islamic State-linked insurgency.

• July 15, 2022

  EU Tightens Russia Sanctions

  The European Commission plans Friday to impose its seventh package of sanctions against Russia, which will add a ban to the import of Russian gold and tweak existing restrictive measures to avoid hampering food exports, two officials told Reuters.

• July 14, 2022

  Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's First Wife, Dies at 73

  Ivana Trump, the first wife of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the mother of his three oldest children, has died at age 73, the Trump family said on Thursday.

• July 14, 2022

  Ivory Coast President Ouattara Meets With Ex-rivals

  Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara held a rare meeting on Thursday with his predecessors Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie as part of reconciliation efforts ahead of the 2025 presidential elections.

• July 14, 2022

  Buffalo Black Killer Gets Federal Indictment

  A federal grand jury on Thursday charged a white man accused in the fatal shooting of 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, with 27 counts of hate crimes and firearms violations, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

• July 14, 2022

  Mali Halts MINUSMA Rotations

  Mali's military-led government said on Thursday it was temporarily suspending troop rotations by U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, days after arresting 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast who it said had arrived in the country without permission.

• July 14, 2022

  Eskom to Cut Less

  South African state power utility Eskom said on Thursday that it expected to implement lower levels of power cuts next week as some generation units return to service.

• July 14, 2022

  Libya Oil Chief Refuses to Exit

  The head of Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) on Wednesday rejected the prime minister's authority to sack him, raising the prospect of an open struggle for control of the state energy producer.

• July 14, 2022

  Oil Slips Ahead of Expected U.S. Rate Hike

  Oil prices fell on Thursday as investors focused on the prospect of a large U.S. rate hike that could stem inflation but at the same time hit oil demand.

• July 14, 2022

  DRC Pair Plead Guilty to Ivory, Horn Trafficking

  Two Congolese, who were earlier arrested in the United States and indicted by a federal grand jury, have pleaded guilty to trafficking elephant ivory and white rhinoceros horn from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Seattle, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.

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