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High oil prices are now feeding through to fuel and business costs in East Africa.
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.
Kenya's Capital Markets Authority (CMA) approved on 5 October global depositary receipts that let Kenyan investors buy into the initial public offering (IPO) of Nigeria's Dangote refinery.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir travelled to Nairobi on 4 October for talks with Kenya's President William Ruto, his first foreign trip since he dissolved the transitional unity government on 22 September.
An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal ruled on 30 September that Ghana's $196.5 million tax assessment on Tullow Oil did not breach the company's petroleum agreements.
Aliko Dangote and President William Ruto broke ground on 30 September on a refinery in Kenya's Lamu county designed to process 700,000 barrels of crude a day.
