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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.
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.
The leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan issued a joint declaration in New Alamein, Egypt, on 4 October.
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.
Ethiopia and Egypt each expelled a diplomat on 2 October with 48 hours to leave, a day after Ethiopia's break with Eritrea.
Guinea-Bissau's military authorities have barred former President Umaro Sissoco Embaló from returning on 4 October, citing national security and public order.
Nigeria's public servants began a three-day warning strike on 2 October across federal, state and local governments, called by the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC).
The European Commission has suspended €18 million ($21 million) of 2026 budget support to Sierra Leone because Freetown has not extradited Jos Leijdekkers, a Dutch cocaine trafficker convicted in the Netherlands and Belgium, Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said on 1 October.
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.
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.
