28 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) Bloomberg. Finance minister Henry Musasizi says Uganda is committed to seeing through the latest currency volatility fuelled by a combination of temporary shocks and deeper structural vulnerabilities;

27 Oct 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) Bloomberg. United States (US)-headquartered investigative and policy organisation The Sentry reports the Islamic State-backed Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) is financing itself through gold mined in eastern DRC exported through Uganda;

27 Oct 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) Reuters. Government data show the number of confirmed Ebola cases has risen to 10,060;

27 Oct 2026 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Arab news. The United Nations (UN) reports that escalating violence in Ethiopia has driven 36,000 refugees into Kenya, straining resources as local leaders call for more aid;

27 Oct 2026 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Reuters. Energy minister Juma Homera says Tanzania has discovered an estimated 223 billion cubic feet of natural gas in the Mnazi Bay area in the south of the country, the first gas discovery in more than ten years;

26 Oct 2026 Djibouti (Djibouti) APA News. Djibouti and China call for a de-escalation of tensions in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, warning of the repercussions of regional instability on global trade, energy and food security;

26 Oct 2026 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Africanews. Prime minister Abiy Ahmed warns Eritrea that it faces “severe consequences” if it continues to support rebels in Ethiopia;

26 Oct 2026 Shirka Woreda (Ethiopia) Borkena. Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports two separate attacks killed at least 60 people in Shirka Woreda (Oromia Region), without disclosing any information on the attackers;

26 Oct 2026 Antananarivo (Madagascar) Globe & Mail. Australia-headquartered Akora Resources reports it opened infrastructure financing talks with the World Bank Group, International Finance Corporation and European Union (EU) for its Bekisopa iron ore project in Madagascar, seeking to align transport infrastructure needs with broader regional development and multi-use transport corridor initiatives;

25 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) CNBC Africa. Health minister Chris Baryomunsi says Ugandan citizens returning to the country with a history of travel to the Democratic Republic of ​Congo (DRC) will be quarantined for 21 days, as Uganda ‌tightens Ebola precautions;

24 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) The Monitor. Health ministry confirms a second Ebola death in the country, with authorities saying a 65-year-old woman died after developing symptoms while in quarantine;

23 Oct 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) MiningMx. The United States (US) government-backed consortium Orion CMC has nearly completed buying stakes in Swiss-headquartered Glencore’s copper-cobalt mines in the DRC;

23 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) TimesLive. The Kenya Red Cross says it is sending humanitarian supplies to families who fled into Kenya after fighting erupted in the Ethiopian border town of Moyale this week, and that its response will initially reach 1,000 households;

23 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) Monitor. The shilling hits a record low against the United States (US) dollar, falling below Shs4,200 despite Bank of Uganda (BoU) (central bank) interventions to curb volatility in the foreign exchange market;

22 Oct 2026 Antananarivo (Madagascar) Africa Intelligence. The transport ministry announces that it has lifted the suspension of the technical assistance contract between the state-controlled railway company Madarail and the Belgian firm Vecturis;

22 Oct 2026 Kigali (Rwanda) Reuters. Singapore and Hong Kong-headquartered Raffles Family Office agrees with the with the Rwanda Development Board to promote ​developments to its ‌client network, including infrastructure and tourism projects surrounding Rwanda’s plans to host Formula One racing;

22 Oct 2026 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Bloomberg. A court charges John Pambalu, a senior figure of opposition party Chadema, with treason, adding to a widening crackdown a week ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly 2025 election protests;

22 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) CNBC Africa. The Bank of Uganda (BoU) (central bank) says in a notice to banks that it is actively seeking an undisclosed ​amount of foreign currency in the exchange market to support the depreciating Ugandan shilling;

21 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Reuters. Aliko Dangote says that his company, Dangote Group, had bought a 25% stake in Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to move petroleum products;

21 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Business Day. Kenya’s government and a group of donors sign a $160m conservation programme to protect 173,000 square km of some of the most complex and least disturbed natural environments on Earth;