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Explosions were heard overnight in Addis Ababa on 1 October, diplomatic sources told Reuters, and a source in the rebel alliance claimed drone strikes on targets including the military headquarters.
Ethiopia is preparing to withdraw more than 3,000 soldiers from Somalia within days or weeks to reinforce its war against Tigrayan and other rebels, Bloomberg reported on 1 October.
A drone strike on a University of Kordofan dormitory in El Obeid killed five people and wounded 47 on 1 October, the Sudan Doctors Network said, blaming the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Senegal will present its debt treatment strategy to external creditors on a call hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 6 October, the finance ministry announced.
The Bank of Zambia cut its policy rate by 250 basis points to 10.75% on 30 September, its second cut this year.
School closures caused by insecurity in Mali keep rising: 2,444 of the country's 11,860 schools could not reopen when the school year began on 1 October.
The Bank of Mozambique kept its benchmark MIMO rate at 9.25% on 1 October, its fourth consecutive hold.
Rwanda has held early talks with Germany, Austria, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands about hosting migrants removed from the European Union (EU), two European Parliament members said after visiting Kigali.
Ethiopian federal forces have pushed more than 150 kilometres into Tigray and retaken three towns about 39 kilometres from the regional capital, Mekelle, Al Jazeera reported on 30 September, citing government-linked sources.
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.
The opposition MLSTP-PSD won 24 of 55 seats in São Tomé and Príncipe's 27 September parliamentary election, provisional results showed on 30 September.
Zambia began talks with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission on 30 September on a new programme to replace the $1.7 billion arrangement that expired in January.
