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Brent crude has traded around $100 a barrel since late September, and African fuel importers are passing the cost on to motorists.
South African financial group Sanlam offered on 5 October to buy the 37.3% of short-term insurer Santam that it does not already own and to delist the company.
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.
Kenya's Capital Markets Authority (CMA) approved on 5 October global depositary receipts that let Kenyan investors buy into the initial public offering (IPO) of Nigeria's Dangote refinery.
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 European Union (EU) has suspended imports of fresh beef, sheep and goat meat and of biltong from Namibia after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the EU said on 5 October.
Cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire, the world's largest producer, fear the main harvest will end early after another dry week, Reuters reported on 5 October.
France signed financing worth about €100 million ($117 million) with Benin on 5 October during President Romuald Wadagni's visit to the Élysée Palace.
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