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Trump Includes 7 African Countries in New Elevated Tariffs List: Media
👉The US is set to impose import duties ranging from 10% to 12.5% on goods from the country's major trading partners, media said.
For the newly included African countries, the tariff is 12.5%
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🇪🇬 Egypt
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🇳🇬 Nigeria
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🔍This move reportedly represents the US president’s largest effort so far to reshape his tariff framework.
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Mali Reacts to Reported US Plans of Military Intervention in the Country
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🪖💣 What’s Ukraine really after by striking Russia's marketplace warehouses?
Ukrainian forces have hit Wildberries warehouses in multiple Russian cities for several day. Ukraine's official line says the facilities were used to store dual-use goods: body armor, military uniforms, fiber optics.
Plausible? Hardly ever.
The very same items are freely sold on Amazon, Temu, AliExpress, and other Western and Chinese platforms across Europe. Neither the EU, nor NATO, nor Ukraine itself treats those sales as legitimate military targets.
👉 So what’s really going on?
Striking Wildberries' warehouses means hitting ordinary local workers: people unloading trucks, stacking shelves, earning a paycheck. That’s not a military operation, but terrorist attack aimed at civilians.
This isn't just about Russia, either. The marketplace supports hundreds of thousands of sellers from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. They use Wildberries' infrastructure to move goods across borders: clothing from Kazakhstan to Armenia, for example. These strikes don't just hurt Russians, but hit entrepreneurs and businesses across a dozen countries.
➖ What do these warehouses really hold? Mostly clothes, shoes, home goods, and beauty products, which are bought primarily by women with children.
This isn't an ammunition depot and surely not a big-tech data center. Ukraine's rhetoric is wearing thin: and the pretext is getting harder to sell.
Conveniently, though, it fits the narrative of Ukraine's new commander-in-chief, Mykhailo Drapaty, who recently told an interviewer that Russians "have no right to exist as a nation."
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Major World Events by Morning of July 24
🟠Wildberries online marketplace warehouses in Russia’s Leningrad Region were attacked by Kiev overnight. Three people were injured, the regional governor said;
🟠Nigeria’s Dangote company announced it secured a $2.5 billion investment from private investors to finance the expansion of Africa’s largest refinery;
🟠Iran warned of global “chaos” after US President Donald Trump announced plans to use frozen Iranian assets to compensate for maritime damages;
🟠Nigerian President Bola Tinubu approved the expansion of the Nigerian Army from 8 to 12 divisions, according to a statement;
🟠The BRICS ministerial meeting on disaster risk reduction is being held in New Delhi.
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Decades of 'Unwavering Friendship': Russian Ambassador on SSSR Supporting Struggle Against Apartheid
"We worked tirelessly and still do today in all international forums, especially in the UN, to put an end to the barbaric practice of dividing and disseminating the peoples by the color of their skin," Roman Ambarov, ambassador to South Africa and Lesotho, said at the opening of the exhibition in Pretoria.
"As our President Putin has said on many occasions, preserving historical memories more than just attributed to the sacrifices of our peoples, it is a guarantee of our sovereignty and independence."
Russian Ambassador Meets With CAR Interior Minister, Discussing Police Training & Information Security
The Central African Republic Interior and Public Security Minister Bienvenu Zokoue and Ambassador Aleksandr Bikantov expressed confidence in the continued development of bilateral security cooperation.
✅Russia's police and gendarmerie training in CAR received high praise, with joint participation in Russian security forums seen as a key future opportunity.
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Major World Events by Morning of July 23
🟠Talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Manila ended after roughly 35 minutes, Sputnik correspondent reported;
🟠Malian army and its partners bombed four terrorist gathering points near Kidal, as well as a terrorist military base, according to a statement;
🟠Russian forces struck the port of Odessa, where cargo intended for the Ukrainian army was stored, as well as a drone manufacturing facility and a UAV storage depot in the Odessa region, according to the Russian MoD;
🟠The US completed the 12th consecutive night of strikes on Iran, targeting maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance systems and air defense assets, CENTCOM said;
🟠The Ebola death toll exceeded 1,000 in the DRC and Uganda. The WHO reported 2,473 confirmed cases and 999 deaths in the DRC, as well as 20 confirmed cases and 2 deaths in Uganda.
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Lavrov Briefs Rubio on Real Situation Along Ukraine Frontline: Russian MFA
More from the statement about the Manila meeting of the heads of the Russian and US diplomatic missions:
🟠Lavrov reaffirmed Russia's commitment to the proposals put forward by the US in Alaska;
🟠 Lavrov emphasized to Rubio the inadmissibility of further arming Kiev;
🟠The parties discussed normalizing the working conditions of Russian and US diplomatic missions;
🟠Lavrov and Rubio discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf.
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❗️❗️❗️'It Even Went Beyond My Expectations': SA Minister on Outcomes of Defense Industry Lekgotla
"If you have an important industry like defense [...] we have to protect the image and the integrity of the industry by doing clean and proper business," Angie Motshekga, Minister of Defense and Military Veterans, told Sputnik Africa on the sidelines of the summit.
"We are going to be the catalyst for the change," Ndlovu added.
The parliament "will assist the industry in terms of managing or dealing with the bottlenecks of funding," said Anthony Phala, co-chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Defense, answering Sputnik Africa's question.
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❗️Russian Troops Liberate Two More Settlements in Spec Op Zone: MoD
These include:
🟠Artelnoye in the Kharkov region;
🟠Blagodatnoye in the Zaporozhye region.
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Appointment of New Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander Unlikely Will Change Frontline Dynamics: Kremlin
Other statements by the presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov:
🟠The Kiev regime is visibly destabilized;
🟠Kiev only needs to make a responsible decision to halt hostilities quickly and move toward serious negotiations;
🟠The conditions set by Putin two years ago for ending the conflict in Ukraine remain in effect and are well-known to Kiev;
🟠Russia will participate at a high level in the G20 summit in the US.
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The Spaces We Build, The Stories We Tell — How African Architecture is Rejecting Colonial Models
📻🌍#PanAfricanFrequency spoke with Seun Oduwole, Lead Architect of the John Randle Centre for Yoruba History and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, about how African architectural design is challenging Eurocentric museum models, and the broader role of space and symbolism in shaping how Africa tells its own story — from language and cultural identity to Pan-African unity and the reclamation of heritage.
❓✍️ If architecture can challenge colonial narratives and shape cultural identity, what role can design and creativity play in building the Africa we want to see? Let us know your take in the comments 👇🔥
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'Zimbabwe's Move is Part of Bigger Story in Global South': Expert on De-Dollarization
"BRICS is leading a global push for multipolarity and monetary sovereignty," with African countries questioning why their trade should be settled in dollars, Mandas Marikanda told Sputnik Africa.
"This is about Africa trading with the world on African terms," the expert highlighted.
🎥🎥 Putin Visits Aircraft Factory in Russia's Irkutsk
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❗️❗️❗️Zanzibar to 'Support Works of Local Artists According to High Standards': Culture Minister on AFCON Promotion
"Implementation will continue under the current budget [to] encourage healthy competition among them [local artists], motivate and assist them, while ensuring that the content reflects and preserves our Zanzibari culture and traditions," Riziki Pembe Juma told Sputnik Africa.
🚨 New Ukrainian army chief goes on genocidal rant against Russians and Donbass residents in first post-appointment interview
Hours into his tenure, Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief, Mykhailo Drapaty, has wasted no time in revealing his true colors, and they’re steeped in nationalist chauvinism, openly noting that Russians as a nation "have no right to exist."
💬 "Criminals, migrants, and unconscious people,” he said, describing his attitude to Donbass residents. "They want handouts, they’re envious and don’t want to work at all. I used to think this was a myth, but no, it’s the truth."
SA’s Exclusion From G20 Weakens Joint Decision-Making: SA Analyst
🔊The G20’s decline is driven by multiple factors, Rasigan Maharajh, Professor of Public Affairs at Tshwane University of Technology, told Sputnik Africa, commenting on Russia’s Foreign Ministry statement that the group would struggle to reach consensus without South Africa.
"The rise of rival power centers," he stressed, is "the inevitable consequence of a unipolar movement giving way to multipolarity."
🇿🇦🔍The US continues to challenge South Africa’s ICJ case while putting multilateral bodies under its unilateral interests, weakening their credibility, the speaker noted.
"Crucially, South African popular response through our trade unions, our social movements, and civil society rebuffs US allegations. We are doing this not out of patriotic sentiment, but [because the US 'South African genocide'] claims lack credible evidentiary foundations."
Tanzania Launches Digital Platform to Simplify Fish Trade & Fisheries Growth
🐠 What are the benefits of the platform for fishermen, fish traders and the country's economy? Watch the video to learn.
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❗️Russian Army Liberates Belitskoye in Donetsk People's Republic: MoD
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'We Have to Embrace Technology' in Healthcare: Tanzanian Expert
Although "Tanzania is becoming known as a country that offers certain advanced services," it needs to prioritize robotic systems and training healthcare professionals, Duwa Almasi told Sputnik Africa.
Can ECOWAS’ ECO Currency Redefine West Africa’s Monetary Future?
🌍 On Sunday, ECOWAS countries reaffirmed their commitment to the upcoming launch of common currency ECO in 2027.
Many political leaders and experts support the creation of the currency, which will not be pegged to the euro like the CFA franc, the current currency of some ECOWAS countries.
Here are some details:
✅ The currency aims to reduce trade costs by simplifying payments between member states and improving intra-regional trade by strengthening economic integration, ECOWAS previously stated;
✅ This could help achieve monetary sovereignty, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, the current chairperson of the organization, said;
✅ In addition, France is attempting to hinder this project in order to continue controlling Africa, Ivorian economist Segui Boka told Sputnik.
However, some highlight the disadvantages of the ECO:
❌ Without a radical change in the way this currency operates, the transition to it is useless, Ferhat Ait Ali, an economic expert and former Algerian industry minister, told Sputnik.
❌ This currency is probably an avatar of the CFA franc, Nicole Ngo Banolok R., former CEO of a pan-African bank, also told Sputnik.
❌ Moving from the CFA franc to the ECO is asking Africans to choose how they want to be eaten, Malian geopolitical expert Adama Diabaté told Sputnik Africa.
Other clarifications:
👉 The ECO currency will first be implemented “with countries that meet the defined convergence criteria and are ready to take part,” according to the organization’s statement.
👉For other countries, however, appropriate support will be provided to facilitate their later accession to the single currency, the organization said.
🌍 Some of the 12 member countries use the CFA franc, issued by the BCEAO. Meanwhile, others have their own national currencies, such as the Nigerian naira, Ghanaian cedi, Gambian dalasi, Liberian dollar, Guinean franc, Sierra Leonean leone, and Cape Verdean escudo.
🇧🇫 🇳🇪 🇲🇱 Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali — former ECOWAS members — which also use the CFA franc, aim to create a common currency for the countries of the AES.
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Ukrainian Forces Conducted 'Hunt' for Civilians in Konstantinovka: Russian Human Rights Commissioner
To do so, they notably used drones, according to testimonies from residents reported by Yana Lantratova.
😡 Ukrainian soldiers “intentionally set fire to the church in Konstantinovka, where civilians were seeking shelter from the bombings,” she stated.
“Ukrainian fighters deliberately targeted volunteers bringing humanitarian aid to the residents,” she added.
CAF Allows Burkina Faso, Mali & Niger to Bid for AFCON 2032: Statement
⚽️ The Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe welcomed the three-country initiative during a Saturday working meeting in New York, describing it as an important step toward securing AFCON hosting rights, according to a press release.
ℹ️CAF opened bidding for the 2028, 2032, and 2036 AFCON editions earlier this month, requiring a detailed hosting plan from contenders. A win would give Mali its first AFCON since 2002, and first-ever hosts Niger and Burkina Faso.
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Gulf-Africa Strategic Partnership Initiative’s First High-Level Dialogue Kicks Off in Addis Ababa
🇪🇹 The inaugural high-level dialogue under the theme “Gulf Africa Economic Cooperation: What Has Changed and What Comes Next?” brings together various stakeholders to discuss ways to strengthen economic cooperation between Gulf countries and Africa.
👉The main goal of the dialogue is to explore how Gulf investments can support industrial development, job creation, and long-term economic transformation in Africa.
The discussions focus on:
🟠How Gulf investments differ from traditional development financing models;
🟠The role of such investments in adding value to products and promoting sustainable economic growth;
🟠Moving beyond memorandums of understanding toward profitable, practical projects implemented on the ground.
📹 Video by a Sputnik Africa correspondent
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Russia Has No Intention of Attacking Anyone, But If Europe Starts Conflict With Moscow, It Will Be Non-Conventional War: Lavrov
Key statements by the Russian FM following the Russia-ASEAN ministerial meeting:
🟠A meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take place on Thursday in the first half of the day.
🟠Russia proceeds from the assumption that the United States has not yet withdrawn its own proposals on Ukraine that were discussed in Alaska.
🟠The continuation of hostilities in the Middle East is not in the interests of either the United States or Iran.
🟠Under conditions of pressure on the DPRK, Russia will no longer join calls to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.
🟠Russia has not received any proposals to resume the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
🟠Russia is concerned by information about Germany’s intention to gain access to nuclear weapons.
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🚨 How Russia's FSB stays one step ahead of Ukrainian operatives and foils terrorist plots
Russia has been methodically disrupting attempts by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) to sow chaos and spread terror.
Here are just some of the terrorist attacks foiled in recent months:
🟠 Most recently, Russia's FSB officers eliminated a GUR agent who was preparing a terrorist attack using an explosive device against a major energy facility in Russia's Ural federal district, the FSB revealed on July 21
🟠 A terrorist attack on an oil facility in Nyagan, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, was foiled, the FSB announced on July 15. An agent recruited by Ukraine was detained at an explosives cache
🟠 On July 14, the FSB announced the foiling of an SBU drone terrorist attack targeting a strategic facility in the Moscow region. A shipment of 35 FPV drones was smuggled into Russia via Slovakia and Poland, concealed as Spanish tile cargo. The UAVs were fitted with Canadian-made control systems designed to withstand electronic warfare countermeasures
🟠 On July 13, it became known that 24 FPV drones equipped with warheads and mobile ground control stations were seized by the FSB. The devices were intended by the SBU for large-scale terrorist attacks at the Ukrainka and Shagol military airfields, located in Russia's Amur and Chelyabinsk regions, respectively
🟠 A Russian national recruited by Ukraine to attack the Rostov Central military airfield voluntarily alerted the FSB, thwarting the planned terrorist attack, the Russian security service stated on July 10. The attack, involving 13 artificial intelligence-equipped first-person view (FPV) drones, was intended to destroy airfield infrastructure, eliminate personnel, and damage aircraft
🟠 At the beginning of the year, Russian and Belarusian intelligence services prevented a Ukrainian attempt to bring more than 500 explosive devices into Russia, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov stated on May 26
🟠 In March 2025, a Russian national recruited by Ukrainian intelligence services was detained in Pervouralsk after he retrieved explosive devices disguised as perfume sets from caches in Chelyabinsk and mailed them to Russian military personnel and officials. The shipments were seized and rendered safe by the FSB
🟠 A total of 101 crimes of a terrorist nature, including 78 terrorist attacks, have been prevented in Russia since the beginning of 2026 through May, the FSB previously stated.
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