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Senegal's National Assembly law committee rejected the government's own revised 2026 budget bill, with the full chamber, where the governing Pastef party holds a large majority, due to take it up on October 27th
Clashes between Ethiopia's Somali and Oromia regional forces killed at least five people and pushed more than 10,000 across the border into Kenya
Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, bought a 25% stake in Kenya Pipeline Company, and the Financial Times reports he plans $1.5 billion to expand its pipeline network
The Democratic Republic of Congo's tax chief called businesses' refusal to use the new state-linked electronic invoice a tax rebellion and threatened fines and closures
Interpol's Operation Serengeti, a crackdown across 20 African countries, led to 1,462 arrests and recovered more than $105 million
Ghana's president said he wants to end exports of raw materials by 2030
Nigeria's first Ebola case of the current outbreak flew in from Uganda and spent days in a private hospital before diagnosis
France has asked Algeria to urgently raise oil and liquefied natural gas deliveries, unnamed sources tell the energy news platform Attaqa
Ethiopia's prime minister warned neighboring Eritrea of severe consequences if it keeps backing the Tigray rebels
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa tells the country to prepare for possibly losing duty-free access to the US market, warning the consequences would be "devastating"
The UN's Libya envoy told the Security Council that smuggling networks divert 30% to 50% of the fuel Libya imports
Belgian investigators searched properties in Brussels in a money-laundering inquiry tied to a complaint against nine people close to Congo's president Felix Tshisekedi
Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have launched a joint television channel, Tafouk TV, with Russian backing
Angola, Nigeria and Kenya recorded the most weekly cyberattacks per organization in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in September, security vendor Check Point says
The African Union was due to launch AfCRA, the continent's first credit rating agency, on October 7th in Port Louis, Mauritius
The war between JNIM, an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, and Islamic State in the Sahel is intensifying over ransoms, religious taxation and territory, Jeune Afrique reports
Kenya's Court of Appeal refused to suspend a ruling that cancelled the government's sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom, a telecom operator, to Vodacom, a South African telecom group, Jeune Afrique reports
Health workers in Beni, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, were given Ervebo, a vaccine proved against the Zaire strain of Ebola rather than the Bundibugyo strain behind the current outbreak
Ethiopia's federal government has installed an interim administration in Tigray for six months, headed by five appointed officials, after pushing the Tigray People's Liberation Front out of the region's main cities
Kenya's third Ebola case is a 65-year-old woman, a close relative of the first two, who was already in quarantine when symptoms began
Airstrikes on October 10th killed at least 72 small-scale gold miners in northern Sudan, and miners and Sudanese rights groups blame Egyptian aircraft
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to an eighth province, on the Central African Republic border, two health officials told Reuters, though Congolese authorities have not yet announced it
Joseph Kabila, the Democratic Republic of Congo's former president, will lead a new political-military movement to replace AFC/M23, the rebel alliance in eastern Congo
A Kenyan court fast-tracked a petition demanding the government disclose the public money and tax breaks behind Dangote's planned Lamu refinery
Dangote's Lagos refinery pushed the close of its $1.6bn share sale back two weeks, to October 27th
Ethiopian federal forces entered Adigrat in northern Tigray after rebel fighters withdrew, days after Ethiopia and Eritrea cut diplomatic ties
1,031 detectives left the South African Police Service in a year, and some of those remaining carry 600 to 800 case files each
Displacement across Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger has nearly doubled in five years, to close to 4 million people
A Kenyan court hears a land case by 133 residents on October 14th over Aliko Dangote's roughly $16 billion refinery project in Lamu, which broke ground last month
Ethiopia expelled ten Eritrean diplomats and says Eritrean troops are 20 to 40 miles inside its northern Tigray region, while Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia have signed a Red Sea pact that leaves Ethiopia out
Zambia signed a $2.49 billion US health financing deal after a requirement to share specimens was removed and the patient-data terms were narrowed
The Democratic Republic of Congo's regulator says 14 miners, including Glencore, paid at least $20 billion from 2020 to 2025 to subcontractors it deems ineligible
Senegal held its first full creditor meeting on external debt above 130% of GDP
Mali's army and Russia's Africa Corps walked into Kidal unopposed after the Azawad rebels pulled out
South Africa's Auditor-General could not verify its air-traffic agency's revenue because records lacked an audit trail and some were deleted without explanation
South Africa's air-traffic operator says it stopped a malware attack on a network supporting weather services, and is now taking bids for an outside forensic investigation
The African Union launches its own credit rating agency on October 7th, pitched as a fix for how Fitch, Moody's and S&P price Africa
The central banks of the UAE and Morocco agreed to work toward linking their payment and financial-messaging systems
The Democratic Republic of Congo will end its cobalt export ban on October 16th and cap exports at 96,600 metric tons a year instead
South Africa has recorded 45 suspected political assassinations this year, 43 of them fatal, more than any of the last three election years' full-year totals
South Africa is separating its ports authority from Transnet, the state freight monopoly whose two container ports rank dead last in the world
A pan-African union federation says the $700 billion in the Nigeria-US minerals deal only counts minerals in the ground
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The Junta That Escaped Foreign Control Just Needed a Foreign Army
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The Railroad That Bypasses Beijing
