5 Nov 2026 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) X. Finance minister Fitsum Assefa says that Ethiopia – with GDP for the fiscal year that ended in July equivalent to $210.7 billion – now ranks as Africa’s fifth-biggest economy and Sub-Saharan Africa’s third-largest economy, after the government revised its national accounts to account for emerging sectors such as the digital economy;

4 Nov 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Yahoo Finance. The World Bank says Kenya could boost GDP by more than a fifth within a decade and significantly reduce debt as a percentage of GDP if it tackles corruption;

3 Nov 2026 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Reuters. Ethiopia and Sudan close their respective consulates near their shared borders, as relations between the two continue to deteriorate;

2 Nov 2026 Djibouti (Djibouti) Africa Business Insider. Djibouti and France sign a renewed defence agreement, with France set to pay Djibouti $85m annually while also returning 40% of France’s naval installation on Heron Island to Djibouti;

2 Nov 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Africa Business Insider. Two Chinese companies – Hunan Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals and Jinan Yuxiao Group Co. Ltd – withdraw from the race to develop Kenya’s Mrima Hill critical minerals deposit, leaving five international bidders, including three United States-linked groups, competing for one of the country’s most valuable untapped mineral resources;

2 Nov 2026 Antananarivo (Madagascar) The Eastleigh Voice. Madagascar introduces a 21-day quarantine period for travellers from Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Nigeria, as authorities seek to prevent any spread of Ebola;

2 Nov 2026 Kigali (Rwanda) Reuters. United States (US) confirms it will suspend Rwanda and South Africa from its African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) from 1 January 2027, citing concerns over human rights, corruption and threats to US interests;

2 Nov 2026 Kampala (Uganda) BBC. Uganda begins withdrawing troops deployed under bilateral agreements to Somalia, with complete withdrawal of all forces, including those under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), scheduled to conclude by the end of 2027;

1 Nov 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) Business Day. France-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removes the DRC from its grey list of countries under enhanced monitoring, following increased efforts to tackle money-laundering and financial crime;

30 Oct 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) Anadolu Ajansi. President Felix Tshisekedi calls on Russia to support a United Nations-backed resolution demanding the withdrawal of Rwandan troops from the DRC;

30 Oct 2026 Kinshasa (DRC) BBC. Government data shows that the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC has claimed more than 5,000 lives, with over 10,300 confirmed cases reported across eight of the country’s 26 provinces;

30 Oct 2026 Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Reuters. Two sources involved in a rescue operation say drone strikes on a camp for displaced civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region killed at least 15 people, several of them children;

30 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Kenyans.Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) says inflation rate rose to 7.3% in October, up from 6.8% in September, driven largely by increases in food prices, transport costs and household energy expenses;

30 Oct 2026 Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Reuters.President Samia Suluhu Hassan says Tanzania and Angola have agreed to connect their Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean transport corridors with ​a railway link via Zambia and the Democratic Republic ‌of Congo (DRC);

30 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) Uganda Bureau of Statistics. The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBS) says Ugandan consumer prices increased 5.8% in October from 4.6% in September, mainly due to increases in energy and food costs;

30 Oct 2026 Kampala (Uganda) Reuters. Russia‘s state-owned energy company Rosatom’s director general Aleksey Likhachev says the company is discussing the construction of large nuclear ​power plants with Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia and Egypt;

29 Oct 2026 Nairobi (Kenya) Moneyweb. Genomic sequencing has linked Ebola cases detected in Kenya and Nigeria to the same transmission chain and to viruses circulating in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), while leaving open the possibility of an undetected chain in Uganda;

28 Oct 2026 Kigali (Rwanda) US Treasury. United States (US) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposes sanctions on Rwanda’s defence ministry and Zigama Credit and Savings Society, a Rwandan financial institution that the US says has played a key role in facilitating Rwanda’s support for the M23 and its political wing, the Congo River Alliance, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC);