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• AllAfrica News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Africa CDC Expresses Solidarity With Kenya and Calls for Stronger Regional Ebola Preparedness

  [Africa CDC] The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has reaffirmed its support to Kenya following confirmation of the country's first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease and the subsequent death of the patient.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Sudan’s Death Toll in 2025 Could Be As High As 100,000 - How We Did the Count

  [The Conversation Africa] Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan's civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely difficult. In 2025, for instance, one conflict monitoring organisation reported around 19,000 direct deaths from political violence across Sudan. Other research teams put the toll at more than 70,000.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Congo-Kinshasa: ‘Ebola Takes the People Children Depend On’ - Unicef

  [UN News] The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is robbing children of their loved ones - with some succumbing to the deadly disease themselves, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Namibia: EU Suspends Beef Exports From Namibia Due to Foot and Mouth Disease

  [RFI] The largest market for Namibian beef, the European Union, announced it has suspended imports after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which wreaked havoc in Europe 25 years ago.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-07✓ Read

  Central Africa: When Streets Become Pharmacies - Booming Illicit Markets in Central Africa

  [UN News] Antibiotics, malaria treatments, painkillers, opioids. More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized over six years in Central Africa. Behind those numbers is an illicit market that thrives not simply despite the region's fragile health systems, but in part because of them.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Ghana: Education Ministry Salutes Ghanaian Teachers On World Teachers’ Day

  [Ghanaian Times] The Ministry of Education has congratulated teachers across Ghana as the country joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Teachers' Day 2026.

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-06Audio✓ Read

  Live From the Barracks: Three Juntas Launch TV Channel

  Three African countries have started Tafouk TV, a Russia-partnered broadcast channel, after throwing out Western journalists and cracking down on local media.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Somalia: President Isaias Holds Talks With Somali President

  [Shabelle] Egypt -- President Isaias Afwerki met with Mr. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, in El Alamein City in the mid-morning hours today for extensive talks on bilateral relations and other matters of vital importance to both countries.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Kenya: KMPDU Demands Urgent Protection for Health Workers After Kenya Confirms First Ebola Case

  [Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists' Union (KMPDU) has called for urgent measures to protect healthcare workers following the confirmation of Kenya's first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease and the subsequent death of the patient in Nairobi.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Zimbabwe: Tungwarara Confirms He Was Airlifted, Refutes Claims He Is Sick - Sources Say He Is Now Recovering

  [New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENTIAL Advisor Paul Tungwarara has confirmed that he was airlifted to South Africa but disputed that this was due to a medical emergency.

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  The Register that shatters the myth of Britain’s role in profiting from enslavement

  In this month’s newsletter: for Caribbean scholars, the evidence of how deeply slavery shaped Britain’s wealth has never been in doubt. Plus, heritage walks in Manchester

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture

  The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop

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• BBC News2026-10-06✓ Read

  South Africa hope to host first African Olympics

  The International Olympic Committee confirms South Africa have shown an interest in becoming the first African host of the summer Olympics.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Somalia: All 7 Surviving Pakistani Crew Members Rescued After Somalia Pirate Hijacking

  [Shabelle] Islamabad -- All seven Pakistani crew members who survived a pirate attack off Somalia's coast have been rescued, Pakistan's foreign minister said Monday.

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• AllAfrica News2026-10-06✓ Read

  Kenya: Young People Must Shape Their Own SRHR Future, Says Kenyan Activist

  [allAfrica] Across Africa, young people are being told that their sexual and reproductive health and rights matter. But for many, accessing those rights remains a daily struggle.

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-06✓ Read

  Kenya Records Ebola Case for First Time

  The authorities said that the virus had been diagnosed in a man arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo and that they were taking measures to prevent any spread.

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province

  Health minister says 28 contacts identified after death of citizen who arrived from DRC on Saturday Kenya has reported its first-ever Ebola death, the health minister announced on Tuesday, after a Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) died after returning to the country. In mid-May, the DRC declared its 17th Ebola outbreak, an extremely deadly disease that has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa over the past 50 years. Continue reading

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  ‘There’s always been a belittling of African women’: honouring history’s invisible heroines

  Congolese photographer Pamela Tulizo uses costume and vivid scenery to celebrate women’s strength and give a new perspective on slavery

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• Africa | The Guardian2026-10-06✓ Read

  Tigray rebel groups ‘forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15’ as fighting spreads

  Civilians try to flee as men and boys rounded up on streets by new alliance as Ethiopia conflict erupts again

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• NYT > World > Africa2026-10-06✓ Read

  Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Author of Seminal Anticolonial Novel, Dies at 98

  The Senegalese writer was lauded as one of the founding fathers of African literature despite publishing only two novels.

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