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[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somalia's Himilo Qaran party has warned against possible military action targeting opposition politicians' offices, saying President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud would bear responsibility for any consequences if such an attack occurred.

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[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Francisco Chapo has warned that the authorities will forcibly collect illegally held firearms after December, when the deadline for their voluntary surrender, under a police amnesty programme, expires.

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[New Times] Authorities in Musanze District said that no fatalities were recorded after a fire gutted GOICO Plaza, the main market in the city, causing extensive damage on Saturday, October 10.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has renewed his attack on retired President Uhuru Kenyatta, accusing unnamed political opponents of sponsoring rivals to undermine his administration as the country heads towards the 2027 General Election.

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[Nyasa Times] Africa has strong seed policies but weak delivery, says AGRA president in The New African

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Legendary Eliud Kipchoge stormed to the Melbourne Marathon Festival victory at 41 years, setting a course record time of 2:09:10.

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[New Zimbabwe] THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) says it is struggling to keep hospitals running, retain health workers in rural areas and secure essential medicines as unpredictable funding, collapsing donor support and growing disease burdens pile pressure on the health system.

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[Darfur Network for Human Rights] DNHR Statement | U.S. Sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) - 11 October 2026

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[Darfur Network for Human Rights] Empowering Girls, Protecting Their Rights, and Building a Future of Equality and Dignity

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[RFI] Cairo - Cultural taboos and a lack of understanding can be a barrier for women to access healthcare in Egypt, alongside the cost of treatment. But the country's budding femtech sector is creating new pathways to help and inform.

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[UN News] At least 139 migrants have died after their boat capsized off Djibouti, with a further 84 people still missing, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Sunday.

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[RFI] France's national health agency has recorded more than 161 cases of West Nile virus and five deaths since its annual seasonal surveillance began on 1 May. Transmitted to humans by mosquitos, which contract it from birds, the virus is progressing rapidly across Europe. Experts say global warming is fostering the spread of such tropical diseases.

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[RFI] At least 109 migrants died, including 15 children, and some 116 went missing when a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti on the night of 8-9 October, a UN agency said Sunday. More than 80 people survived the shipwreck, all Ethiopian nationals.

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[UN News] Adam Ouattara and Makongo Traoré have four children and a home on the edge of Torla village in Côte d'Ivoire. He herds cattle. She grows vegetables on a small plot nearby. For years, the dry season pitted their two livelihoods against each other.

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[The Conversation Africa] Much of what scientists know about how genetic differences affect health comes from studying populations outside Africa. This matters because genetic information is increasingly being used to understand disease, interpret genetic tests and, in some cases, guide treatment.

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[The Conversation Africa] Across Africa, wheat, maize and rice are the most consumed cereal crops. When they fail because of drought, floods or other climate disasters, this can be devastating for farmers, particularly smallholder farmers whose livelihoods and food security depend directly on how many crops they can grow and sell.

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[RFI] Kenya's first imported case of Ebola - in which the patient travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo via Uganda - has exposed failings in border screening processes. Now Kenyan health officials are racing against the clock to prevent one infection from becoming an outbreak.

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[African Arguments] Zambia's 13 August general election was already fraught before anyone tried to challenge its result, according to an account human rights lawyer Linda Kasonde has since published on her Substack. The army had been deployed to polling stations, she writes, a role outside its constitutional mandate. The Electoral Commission suspended vote tallying for six hours over reports of attacks on polling agents, during which only police and soldiers had access to the ballots. Opposition candidate Brian Mundubile's

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[Africa CDC] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 4-5 June 2026

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After analysing 1,500 videos and images of the Raila Odinga memorial, Africa Eye finds that those killed were far from the scuffles.

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Neither Egypt nor Sudan has commented on the alleged strikes on an artisanal mining camp on Saturday.