* Israeli military dispatches search team (Adds details, quotes)

* Delays prompt some activity * Traders point to IOC, Petrogal tenders * Qua Iboe trading around dated Brent plus $1.80 LONDON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - West African crude oil differentials were pressured on Thursday, although Nigerian loading delays in the wake of severe flooding prompted some activity in the market, preventing further weakness traders said. Traders said that Indian Oil Corp had issued a tender and acquired an EA, a Qua Iboe and possibly one other cargo. Petral, t

GENEVA (Reuters) - A military intervention in northern Mali against Islamist militants will have a high humanitarian cost, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Contracts to exploit Liberia's natural resources are likely to be revised or renegotiated once a probe into mismanaged agreements with logging firms is completed, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A suspension of aid to Uganda from four European countries could hurt the Ugandan shilling in the coming week while Kenya's shilling and the Ghanaian cedi could weaken due to growing importer demand for dollars.

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi's government has back-tracked on its decision to suspend arrests of gays, after churches in the strongly Christian country fiercely criticised the move.

* Caused by Ghana's struggling currency, late payments to farmers

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Peacekeepers said they had discovered homes burned and dead animals and ammunition littering the ground in a Darfur village allegedly attacked by pro-government forces last week.

ACCRA, Nov 8 (Reuters) - More people than initially thought remain trapped beneath a collapsed four-storey department store in a suburb of Ghana's capital Accra that killed at least seven people the previous day, officials said on Thursday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels in Sudan's main oil state said on Thursday they had shot down a government Antonov military aircraft after it had bombed targets in the Nuba mountains, part of South Kordofan state.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A woman heading to a concert by U.S. rock band Linkin Park in Cape Town was crushed to death on Wednesday when a strong gust of wind blew over a promotional billboard, South African media said.

ROME (Reuters) - World food prices fell slightly in October, largely because of falling cereals and oils prices, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday but prices remained close to levels seen during the 2008 food crisis.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Disputes over controversial articles have raised doubts whether members of the assembly drafting Egypt's new constitution will have the document ready by a December 12 deadline, after which it is to be put to a referendum, officials say.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council extended an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia for four months on Wednesday as it mulls lifting an arms embargo and Uganda threatens to pull out troops over claims it is aiding rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo.

PARIS (Reuters) - Prosecutors in France are investigating a French man suspected of entering Mali illegally to set up a jihadist cell in the country, where Paris believes there is a risk of militants planning an attack on French soil.

ACCRA (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and dozens more were trapped in rubble when a four-storey building housing a department store collapsed on Wednesday in a suburb of Ghana's capital Accra.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Libya should not grant amnesty for war crimes committed during last year's uprising against former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, regardless of who committed them, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film that stoked protests against the United States across the Muslim world was sent back to jail for a year on Wednesday over probation violations stemming from his role in the video.

NAIROBI, Nov 8 - - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Thursday. - - - - - EVENTS *Mauritius - Bank of Mauritius auctions 182-day T-bills *Zambia - Bank of Zambia auctions 91,192, 273 and 364-day T-bills GLOBAL MARKETS Asian shares extended losses on Thursday as investors worried about the fiscal crisis in the United States and the European economy's further deteriora