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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).
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.
