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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.
Ethiopia and Egypt each expelled a diplomat on 2 October with 48 hours to leave, a day after Ethiopia's break with Eritrea.
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.
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).
Nigeria's Stanbic IBTC Bank Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 56.4 in September from 54.3 in August, its highest in more than four and a half years, the survey showed on 2 October.
Société Générale has agreed to sell its 60.22% stake in Société Générale Ghana, with Morocco's Attijariwafa Bank buying 55.22% and Ghana's Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) the remaining 5%, the bank said on 1 October.
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.
