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By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN (Reuters) -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. The three men have dominated Ivory Coast’s fractious political scene since the 1990s. …

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DAKAR (Reuters) -Mali’s military-led government said on Thursday it was temporarily suspending troop rotations by the U.N. peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, days after arresting 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast who it said had arrived in the country without permission. Mali’s ruling junta, which seized power in an August 2020 coup, has repeatedly butted heads with many …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has appointed Brahim Djamel Kessali as finance minister, state media said on Thursday, a month after sacking Abderrahmane Raouya. (Reporting by Alaa Swilam; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s Competition Commission, which has been probing online markets for over a year, has provisionally found that Google’s paid search results distort competition, making it a “de facto monopolist” in general search. Governments around the world are strengthening the regulation of U.S. tech giants that have become even more powerful during the …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he wanted a “rethink of all our (military) postures on the African continent” and had asked his ministers and army chiefs to work on it. Macron made the comments as he was addressing French troops ahead of the July 14 Bastille Day parade in Paris. …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 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. Herdade Lokua, 34, and Jospin Mujangi, …

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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – French officials head to Niger on Friday to redefine the country’s strategy to fight Islamist militants in the Sahel as thousands of troops complete a withdrawal from Mali and concerns mount over the growing threat to coastal West African states. Coups in Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso have weakened …

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