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The World Bank raised its 2026 growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.3% on 6 October, 0.3 percentage points above its April projection, after growth of 4.1% in 2025.
Senegal told external creditors on 6 October that it aims to reach an agreement in principle with official lenders and bondholders by December, Reuters reported, citing three sources.
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.
Oil above $100 a barrel is now hitting currencies and business activity, not only pump prices, in African fuel importers.
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.
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) said on 6 October that it will sell $840 million at foreign exchange auctions in the second quarter of the 2026/27 fiscal year, up from $500 million in the first.
Cobalt hydroxide prices fell about 31% in the third quarter despite the export quotas the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) uses to restrict supply.
DR Congo's Mines Minister Louis Watum Kabamba launched an airborne geological survey programme on 6 October to map the country's mineral potential.
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.
Sudan earned a record $2.292 billion from official gold exports in the first nine months of 2026, the state-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company said on 6 October.
