On this day — July 10 in African history

Agence Mauritanienne d'Information (c. 1960-61) — Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

Mauritanian President Moktar Ould Daddah was ousted in a bloodless military coup.

Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica ; Universite de Sherbrooke, Perspective Monde ; U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

The South African cricket team was readmitted to international cricket following the end of its apartheid-era ban.

Sources: International Cricket Council ; ESPNcricinfo ; The Citizen / Roodepoort Record

Photo by Etienne Scholasse, European Communities (1998) — CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

The Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement was signed by the DRC, Angola, Namibia, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe in an attempt to end the Second Congo War.

Sources: United Nations (Security Council document S/1999/815) ; United States Institute of Peace

Four mercenaries, one American and three British, were executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial for their role in the Angolan Civil War.

Sources: UK Parliament ; International Commission of Jurists

Scientists in London reported mitochondrial DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton that supported an African origin for modern humans and suggested that Neanderthals and modern humans had diverged more than 500,000 years earlier.

Sources: UK Parliament ; International Commission of Jurists