Regional News: Africa
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![Floods leave at least 500 dead in Nigeria](userfiles/1/images/imgb_nigeria-inundations.jpg)
Floods leave at least 500 dead in Nigeria
The rains have also displaced up to 600,000 people from their homes, according to the Emergency Management Agency, which warns of more flooding.
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Burkina Faso residents storm and burn French embassy
Crowds of protesters tried to storm the French embassy in Ouagadougou on Saturday, after Burkina Faso’s special forces staged a second military coup in a year, and accused the former colonial power of aiding the ousted leader, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, whose whereabouts remain unknown.
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![Mali Accuses France of Supporting Terrorists on its Soil](userfiles/1/images/imgb_french-terrorists-mali.jpg)
Mali Accuses France of Supporting Terrorists on its Soil
The French-led overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2012 resulted not only in the collapse of Africa’s most prosperous and stable country, but sent shockwaves through the continent that destabilized neighboring countries, including the remote deserts of northern Mali, where Tuareg rebels tried to form their own independent state of Azawad.
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![South Africa does not want to be put under pressure by the West in the Ukraine war](userfiles/1/images/imgb_Naledi-Pandor.jpg)
South Africa does not want to be put under pressure by the West in the Ukraine war
The South African foreign minister accused some western states, which she did not name, of wanting to put pressure on her country to get it to take sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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![Central Bank of South Africa wants to regulate cryptocurrencies](userfiles/1/images/imgb_Central-Bank-of-South-Africa.jpg)
Central Bank of South Africa wants to regulate cryptocurrencies
The South African Central Bank will seek to introduce a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, said Kuben Naidoo, deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).
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![Morocco blames Spain for the massacre of migrants in Melilla](userfiles/1/images/imgb_migrantes-Melilla.jpg)
Morocco blames Spain for the massacre of migrants in Melilla
The Spanish border security forces did not take the necessary measures to control the situation at the Melilla fence.
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![Parliament in Libya on fire, oil shipments to Europe suspended](userfiles/1/images/imgb_ParliamentLibyafire.jpg)
Parliament in Libya on fire, oil shipments to Europe suspended
Unrest gripped Libya a day after representatives of rival national authorities, one based in the country's east and the other in the west, failed to reach an agreement at UN-brokered talks in Geneva on a constitutional framework for national elections.
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![A single shot to the head was enough to end the miserable life of the hated hunter Riaan Naude.](userfiles/1/images/imgb_Riaan-Naude.jpg)
Hunter Riaan Naude got hunted in South Africa
Millions celebrate that Riaan Naude got shot in the head, he killed dozens of wild animals hunting, but at the end of his miserable life, the got himself hunted.