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AFP reports at least 21 killed in a drone strike on a Nyala market, while the RSF-aligned government says 102. Drones also hit power stations, and Britain sanctioned 15 commanders and leaders.
Checked 28 Oct 2026, 02:15 EAT (23:15 GMT). Open the Sudan live tracker →
Ethiopia's army chief accuses Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan of coordinating the opposition alliance and says weapons came through Massawa, without evidence shown. Tigray's caretaker officials and Tigrayan forces give opposite accounts of the fighting.
Checked 28 Oct 2026, 02:30 EAT (23:30 GMT). Open the Ethiopia live tracker →
As of 25 October we found no newer reporting on the Mahaas deal itself. The Somali Guardian reported that Al-Shabaab announced on 3 October that it had signed a deal with Hawadle elders at Mahaas, in Hiiraan, to end four years of fighting.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 00:50 EAT (21:50 GMT). Read our Hirshabelle story →
Hirshabelle's assembly re-elected President Ali Guudlaawe on 24 October with 81 votes. The outgoing vice president, a Hawadle from Hiiraan, rejected the vote and says it does not apply to Hiiraan.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 00:50 EAT (21:50 GMT). Read our Galmudug story →
The state says it will ask a court for a supervisory order on the asylum ruling, and TimesLIVE reports a hearing on 29 October. Home Affairs withdrew its disputed directive on 9 October. Police said 30 people had been arrested by 10 October, and we found no newer total.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read more →
The army says it struck RSF command centres in Nyala on 16 October. The RSF-linked Tasees coalition says 30 civilians died in a livestock market, a figure only that side has given. Emergency Lawyers confirmed the market was hit. The RSF and Tasees accuse Egypt of launching the drone, which Sudan Tribune does not confirm.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Sudan war tracker →
South Sudan's information ministry, army and a Rumbek county official have given death tolls of 71, about 40 and 46 for the 9 October fighting. None is verified, and the army says its figure may change. Officials describe fighting between armed youth from the Pakam and Nyang communities.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read more →
Kenya's health ministry confirmed a ninth Ebola case on 20 October, a 24-year-old relative of the first patient who was already in quarantine. The ministry says all nine cases are one cluster with no evidence of spread outside it. As of 22 October we found no tenth case.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read the full story →
As of 22 October we found no newer reporting: no independent confirmation, no US statement and no response from Al-Shabaab.
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Prime Minister Ilídio Vieira Té told reporters on 8 October that there are no conditions to hold the vote on 6 December, and gave no new date. Reuters reports he cited party congresses not held and candidacy filings due at the Supreme Court by 6 October that were not made.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read the full story →
As of 22 October we found no independent confirmation of the army's account of Kidal and no account from residents. A Malian staff officer told AFP on 6 October, "We have just arrived in Kidal ahead of schedule", and AP reports the government spokesman announced the recapture on state television.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read more →
Critical Threats reports federal gains at Abiy Addi, Zana and Semema and Tigrayan forces back in Rama, citing ACLED and a monitoring account. Abiy's six-month caretaker administration for Tigray was announced on 16 October. We cannot verify who holds each town.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 00:20 EAT (21:20 GMT). Ethiopia war tracker →
Eritrea has written to the African Union over Ethiopia's expulsion of its diplomats, Xinhua reports. We found no AU reply, and no new expulsions or restored ties since 13 October.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Ethiopia war tracker →
The army says it won two towns in North Kordofan in recent weeks. Neither claim is independently confirmed, and the RSF has not commented.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Sudan war tracker →
NPR reports about 9,700 Ebola infections and at least 4,600 deaths in DR Congo. The virus has reached an eighth Congolese province, Kenya has nine linked cases and Nigeria one. We found no official count dated after 24 October.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 02:20 EAT (23:20 GMT). Read the full story →
As of 22 October we found no newer reporting on the declaration or on a reply from Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan or Ethiopia beyond the statements below.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Ethiopia war tracker →
As of 22 October: the Political Parties Council registered four pre-election coalitions with 25 parties in total on 21 October, Radio Tamazuj reports.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read our South Sudan story →
On 15 October the Constitutional Court ordered the IEC to put the ANC's 181 excluded candidates on the ballot for the 4 November local elections. The court said its reasons will follow. Two justices would have dismissed the application, and other parties want the same treatment.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read more →
Critical Threats, citing ACLED, says federal forces pulled back from Zalambessa and Rama on 17 October, and ACLED says neither they nor their allies are in Rama now. AFP reports some Eritrean troops have gone home and others remain near the border. No neutral body has confirmed where Eritrean troops are.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 22:58 EAT (19:58 GMT). Ethiopia war tracker →
As of 22 October we found no newer reporting on the meeting or its declaration. The African Union says its eighth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting took place on 4 October in El Alamein, Egypt.
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Africa CDC is checking whether the first Ebola patients in Nigeria and Kenya were both at Entebbe airport on 3 October. Where Nigeria's patient was infected is disputed between Uganda, Switzerland and the WHO. Forty-four contacts are quarantined.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 02:20 EAT (23:20 GMT). Read our Ebola reporting →
The UN rights chief says drone strikes killed at least 306 people in Sudan in three weeks of October and blames both sides. Sudan has asked the UN to investigate the Abyei market strike, and Western ministers warn of famine.
Checked 26 Oct 2026, 00:20 EAT (21:20 GMT). Follow the Sudan tracker →
Abiy Ahmed warned Eritrea of "extremely severe" consequences if it rejects peace, Dawan Africa reports. Eritrea's information minister rejected Ethiopia's claim to "reclaim" sea access. These are the governments' own statements.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Follow the Ethiopia tracker →
Mauritius lifted its curfew on 19 October. The prime minister's office said it will not be extended. At least 188 people were arrested, and the officer who shot a woman on 10 October has been arrested and brought to court.
Checked 23 Oct 2026, 01:21 EAT (22:21 GMT). Read the full story →
On October 3 Al-Shabaab announced a pact with Hawadle elders at Mahaas. No Hawadle signatory has been named, the federal government has not answered, and on October 8 residents and Al-Shabaab fighters were shooting at each other in Tardo. Part 1 of 2: what was announced, what the text says, and what no one has confirmed.
The land was already Al-Shabaab's before October 3. What the pact buys is the stand-down of the clan militia that helped drive it out of Hiiraan in 2022, and a template for other clans. Part 2 of 2: why the Hawadle would sign, what Al-Shabaab gains, what Mogadishu loses, and what would settle it.
The ruling party's candidate won the state presidency on October 24, as in Galmudug. The Supreme Court had certified the House results, and no challenge was filed. The Hawadle grievances that dominated the buildup are unresolved.
A former student leader from the 1998 war argues that Ethiopia's grievance over the port of Assab is real, that a war would not give it a port it could keep, and that Eritrea should turn Assab into a deal while it still holds it.
The Salvation Forum calls Banadir's election illegal and the Future Council rejects the 2027 timetable. On October 22 former Prime Minister Roble and others congratulated Galmudug's new president. The president says the Supreme Court answers any complaint about the national vote. The opposition has not agreed on what it is objecting to.
South Africa classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster, then set aside R5.1 billion. Most of it is for social workers, and under 4 percent is for the forensics and investigators who turn a body into a case.
Nigeria's new election law makes threatening a voter a crime, but it says nothing about gender-based violence, and the author found no rule that polling units be accessible.
Nigeria's first Ebola patient left Abuja for Switzerland on October 26. Fifty-three people are being traced, most from the hospital that treated her. The days between her first symptoms and her test, not the border, decide how far this goes, and no two official accounts agree on how many there were.
The president's eldest son, now vice-president, would take over within 24 hours if his father died or resigned. A French court has convicted him of money laundering.
On October 15 Somalia's president said there would be no talks with the opposition on how the vote works. Ten days later he said the door to dialogue was always open, and invited his rivals to a forum on his terms. The electoral commission has set the dates, parliament on April 15 and the president on May 15, 2027, and says it is independent. It needs the government for money, security and political support.
A police sergeant shot a woman in a work van on October 9. A week of unrest brought a curfew, at least 188 arrests and talk of prosecuting children from 12. On October 24 the police-complaints body asked the public for video of the shooting. That is where the answer will come from.
At a national conference in Mogadishu, Judge Hassan Ali Nur Shuute described how Al-Shabaab killed his father to stop the trial of a man who once drove for the group's spokesman, over the 2017 Zoobe bombing. Parts of his account match earlier reports. What the killers intended rests on his word.
A kidnapping in Imo state shows what runs these wars: ransoms, gold sales and taxes taken at gunpoint, not imported weapons. Africa has about four in ten of the world's conflicts and about four in a hundred of its recorded arms imports.
Ethiopia told the UN Security Council that Eritrea invaded up to 60 km into Tigray. Independent monitors found a smaller crossing near Zalambessa and Ethiopian drone strikes, and Ethiopian forces have since pulled back from the border towns. Why would Asmara and the TPLF be on one side, and what could have been done differently?
Police said 20 kidnapped youth-corps graduates in Imo State were rescued on October 7. On October 22 a State Security Service investigator told a High Court they were freed after the kidnappers' ransom was paid. Families say they paid, the police commissioner says he knew of none, and three men are on trial.
One brother was replaced in July 2025. For the other two, I found no decree or report that confirms them in place or removes them, and the presidency has not answered the criticism.
Nothing I found links the summit to the troop reports. But the declaration has no penalty and no test, the follow-up mechanism has produced no public meeting, and sources still disagree on whether Eritrean forces are in Tigray.
A man who, the health ministry says, had lived in Congo for seven years landed in Nairobi on October 3 and was dead by Monday night. Nine people in Kenya have now been infected, two have died, and all belong to a cluster around him. Nobody has explained how he got through screening.
Congo's Ebola numbers come from surveillance workers who say they have missed pay, in towns where a ruling-party official was beaten to death, his party says, for defending the response. The September dip in cases did not last, and Africa CDC says $700 million of the aid paid out cannot be traced.
Eleven months after Samia Suluhu Hassan named her daughter and son-in-law to her cabinet, State House has not explained the choice. This week the opposition leader began a hunger strike and a second Chadema official was charged with treason.
The military said security conditions were not in place for the ousted president to fly home on October 4. A five-year residency rule and a postponed election do the same work by other means, and none of the three has been tested in a court.
Tigrayans fight Tigrayans, young people are fleeing, and the neighbours that once argued over a dam are now circling a war. Somalia hosts Ethiopian refugees, shares a border with Al-Shabaab territory and sits at the centre of a diplomatic scramble. I saw this kind of corridor diplomacy at the African Union, and it does not tell the public what is at stake.
Kiir ended the power-sharing deal on September 22, then sacked a minister who had survived it. His main rival is on trial in a court that adjourned for lack of generator fuel, the travel of officials is restricted, and the vote is set for December 22.
Somalia's Supreme Court threw out Galmudug's July 30 vote. On September 30 the state voted again, run by the same commission, from the same register, without the party that won the case.
Of three state presidents Villa Somalia pressed, one fled, one stepped aside after talks, and one agreed to run on the ruling party's ticket. On October 24 that president was re-elected, 81 votes to 13, while his own vice president said the vote did not bind Hiiraan. Galmudug's court case is a checklist, and Hirshabelle's record against it is mixed.
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