Egypt has qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after a 3-0 win over Djibouti, topping Group A and joining Morocco and Tunisia as Africa’s early qualifiers.
Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of plotting war and aiding rebel groups to destabilise its Amhara region, reviving tensions over Red Sea access and fears of renewed conflict in the Horn of Africa.
Jamaica has imposed curfews in Kingston and Linstead after gang shootings left six people dead, including a child, highlighting the nation’s ongoing struggle with gun violence despite a decline in homicides.
Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi has warned cobalt exporters who breach the country’s new quota system will face permanent exclusion, as Kinshasa moves to stabilise prices and assert control over a mineral vital to the global green energy transition.
Nigeria’s six-month ban on raw shea nut exports, aimed at boosting local processing, has instead caused prices to collapse and incomes to halve, leaving thousands of women harvesters in hardship without safety nets.
The United States has warned Nigerian officials implicated in corruption that they will face visa restrictions, reinforcing Washington’s stance against graft that undermines democracy and economic growth.
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced their withdrawal from the International Criminal Court, accusing it of neo-colonial bias and pledging to create local justice systems, a move critics say deepens their international isolation.
Kenya’s aviation workers have issued a seven-day strike notice demanding the resignation of the airports authority board over incompetence and the scrapped Adani leasing deal, threatening major disruption at Nairobi’s main airport.
Super Typhoon Ragasa, with winds reaching 230 km/h, is set to hit the northern Philippines on Monday, prompting widespread evacuations, school closures, and flight cancellations, while also threatening Taiwan, Hong Kong, and southern China.
The Democratic Republic of Congo will lift its cobalt export ban on 16 October, introducing annual quotas to stabilise prices amid artisanal mining challenges and regional conflict.
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