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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.
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.
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.
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.
Ethiopian federal forces and allied fighters entered Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, on 4 October after the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) announced its withdrawal.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) said on 4 October they had seized positions at Al-Kadalou, about 60 kilometres from Ed Damazin, the capital of Sudan's Blue Nile state.
Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in a television interview broadcast on 3 October that he sent fighter jets to Niger because he saw the 28–29 August mutiny in Niamey as a provocation against Algeria.
The Tigray Peace Forces (TPF), a pro-government militia, said on 2 October it had captured Milazat, about 20 kilometres south-east of Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region.
Sudan's army said on 2 October it had captured al-Mazroub, which it called the largest stronghold of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Kordofan.
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.
Ethiopia closed its embassy in Asmara on 1 October and gave 10 Eritrean diplomats 48 hours to leave, citing "direct and indirect acts of hostility and belligerence".
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).
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.
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.
