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High oil prices are now feeding through to fuel and business costs in East Africa.
South Africa's Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa on 7 October issued a determination that prioritises 4,600 megawatts (MW) of battery storage and 5,000 MW of gas-fired power for new public bidding rounds.
Witnesses told Reuters that dozens of Eritrean soldiers drove through Adigrat, a town in Ethiopia's Tigray region about 25 kilometres from the border, on 7 October.
Zambia's state mining investor ZCCM-IH, which holds 20.6% of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), has approved a $498 million plant to recover copper from tailings at Nchanga in Chingola, it said on 7 October.
Togo's power utility CEET warned of targeted power cuts from 7 to 22 October while maintenance on the West African Gas Pipeline halts gas deliveries to its thermal plants.
The World Bank raised its 2026 growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.3% on 6 October, 0.3 percentage points above its April projection, after growth of 4.1% in 2025.
Senegal told external creditors on 6 October that it aims to reach an agreement in principle with official lenders and bondholders by December, Reuters reported, citing three sources.
Mali's army, backed by Russia's Africa Corps, took back the northern city of Kidal on 6 October without a fight after the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) pulled out.
Oil above $100 a barrel is now hitting currencies and business activity, not only pump prices, in African fuel importers.
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.
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) said on 6 October that it will sell $840 million at foreign exchange auctions in the second quarter of the 2026/27 fiscal year, up from $500 million in the first.
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.
Zambia's government said on 6 October that it will sign a five-year health agreement with the United States worth $1.5 billion in US funding, after clauses requiring the sharing of medical specimens and health data were removed.
Sudan earned a record $2.292 billion from official gold exports in the first nine months of 2026, the state-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company said on 6 October.
Brent crude has traded around $100 a barrel since late September, and African fuel importers are passing the cost on to motorists.
South African financial group Sanlam offered on 5 October to buy the 37.3% of short-term insurer Santam that it does not already own and to delist the company.
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.
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.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a second five-year term on 5 October at the first session of the new House of Peoples' Representatives.
