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Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on 6 October: a Kenyan man who had lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) and died in a Nairobi hospital.
Cobalt hydroxide prices fell about 31% in the third quarter despite the export quotas the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) uses to restrict supply.
DR Congo's Mines Minister Louis Watum Kabamba launched an airborne geological survey programme on 6 October to map the country's mineral potential.
Congolese troops and allied Wazalendo militias said they had retaken several villages from the M23 rebels in North Kivu's Masisi territory and in South Kivu's Kalehe on 5 October.
Deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak passed 4,000 on 2 October, with 4,018 deaths among about 8,300 confirmed cases in seven provinces, official figures showed.
