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===Deaths===
[[October 23|23 Oct]]: [[Stella Obasanjo]]<br />
[[October 10|10 Oct]]: [[Milton Obote]]<br />

===Events===
• [[Economic Community of West African States|ECOWAS summit]]<br/>
• [[2005 Malawi food crisis|Malawi food crisis]]<br/>
• [[2005 Niger food crisis|Niger food crisis]]<br/>
• [[Operation Murambatsvina|Zimbabwe home demolitions]]<br/>
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===Holidays===
[[October 4|4]]: [[Ramadan]] begins <br>

===Armed conflicts===
• [[Second Congo War]]<br>
• [[Darfur conflict]] in [[Sudan]]<br/>
• [[Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire]]<br/>
• [[Lord's Resistance Army|Conflict in northern Uganda]]<br/>
* ''[[List of recent wars#Ongoing wars|Ongoing wars]]''

=== elections===
[[October 11|Oct 11]]: [[Liberian elections, 2005|Liberian presidential & parliamentary]]<br>
[[November 8|Nov 8]]: [[Liberian elections, 2005|Liberian presidential & parliamentary, run-off]]<br>

===Related pages===
[[Wikipedia:How the Current events page works|About this page]]<br/>
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==[[31 October]] [[2005]] (Monday)==
* [[Liberian elections, 2005]]: Campaigning in the run-off election has begun. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510310721.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Guinea-Bissau]]'s new president, [[Joao Bernardo Vieira]], announces the dissolution of the government headed by his rival Prime Minister [[Carlos Gomes Junior]]. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510310965.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Côte d'Ivoire]] President [[Laurent Gbagbo]] begins a sixth year in office defying opposition calls that he stand down now his elected mandate is up. The elections scheduled on Sunday were cancelled due to instability. Meanwhile, rebels controlling the northern half of the country declare their leader, 33-year-old [[Guillaume Soro]], as the new prime minister. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510310549.html (allAfrica)]

* An official from the [[Mozambique]]'s [[Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition]] (SETSAN) says that the number of people in need of food aid has almost doubled in the past six months to more than 800,000 in [[Mozambique]] due to escalating [[maize]] prices and other factors. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510310962.html  (allAfrica)]

*The [[African Union]] (AU) renews its backing for the continent's plan to enlarge the [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]]. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-10-31T185559Z_01_MCC168120_RTRUKOC_0_UK-AFRICA-UN.xml (Reuters)]

*The [[United Nations Environment Programme|UN Environment Programme]] warns that most [[lake]]s in [[Africa]] are under unprecedented strain from [[Overpopulation|rising populations]] and must be managed better if demand for [[fresh water]] is not to stir instability. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L313949.htm (Reuters)]

==[[24 October]] [[2005]] (Monday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of the Republic of the Congo.svg|20px]]: A [[World Bank]] project, estimated to cost between [[US$]]30 million and $40 million, will be launched in 2006 in the [[Republic of Congo]] to rehabilitate and modernize agriculture in rural area, aiming to boost [[food security]]. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b4d2db23e6eda629e3e771c7d93a4227.htm (Reuters)]
*[[President]] of the [[Royal Society]] [[Robert May]] warned that the extra aid to help lift [[Africa]] out of poverty agreed in July by [[G8]] leaders could be eaten up by [[global warming]] unless urgent action is taken. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23405543.htm (Reuters)]

==[[23 October]] [[2005]] (Sunday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg|20px]] A [[Nigeria]]n airliner [[Bellview Airlines Flight 210]], a [[Boeing 737]] aircraft, with 117 people on board crashed shortly after taking off from [[Lagos]] en route to the capital [[Abuja]]. No survivors were found. [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-23T185137Z_01_MOL349298_RTRUKOC_0_UK-NIGERIA-AIRLINER-BODIES.xml&archived=False (Reuters)] [http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/10/24/worldupdates/2005-10-24T021536Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-220636-6&sec=worldupdates (The Star)]

==[[21 October]] [[2005]] (Friday) == 
* [[AIDS]] activists groups, [[Act Up-Paris]] lobby group and the [[African Essential Drug Network]] (RAME), call on drugs manufacturing company [[Roche Holding AG]] to allow generic companies to make the antiviral drug [[Tamiflu  ]] for Africans, as concerns mount over how countries would deal with a potential [[flu pandemic]] stemming from bird flu virus [[H5N1]].  [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21375561.htm (Reuters)]

==[[20 October]] [[2005]] (Thursday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Guinea.svg|20px]] [[Guinea]]'s government announces that [[Elections in Guinea|municipal elections]] will be held on 18 December. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1b07f482511d575d70867ba637b2590a.htm (Reuters)]

==[[18 October]] [[2005]] (Tuesday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Sudan.svg|20px]] The [[Uganda People's Defence Force]] (UPDF) and [[Sudanese People's Liberation Army]] (SPLA) have launched a joint operation against the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA) rebels, after the LRA ambushed a convoy of UPDF soldiers on October 14. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510180390.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Malawi.svg|20px]] [[2005 Malawi food crisis|Malawi food crisis]]: [[United Nations Children's Fund]] (UNICEF) has increased its appeal for [[Malawi]] to [[USD]]13 million, as the humanitarian crisis worsen with an estimated 46,000 severely [[malnutrition|malnourished]] children. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510180674.html (allAfrica)]

==[[17 October]] [[2005]] (Monday) == 
*A [[United Nations]] food agency expert said that [[East Africa]] as well as the rest of the continent are more vulnerable to [[bird flu]] than [[Europe]] as the region's lack of preparedness causes concern. Meanwhile, researchers in [[South Africa]] said that even though no bird flu of any kind has been detected in Africa, controlling the virus should it occur in the continent's rural hinterlands could prove a difficult task. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17260870.htm (Reuters)]
 
==[[15 October]] [[2005]] (Saturday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Somaliland.svg|20px]] [[For Unity, Democracy, and Independence|UDUB]], [[Somaliland]]'s ruling party, won the most seats in the first multiparty [[Somaliland parliamentary election, 2005|parliamentary elections]] held in the breakaway country. [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1105AP_Somalia_Breakaway_Republic.html]
* [[Image:Flag of Malawi.svg|20px]] [[2005 Malawi food crisis]]: President [[Bingu wa Mutharika]] declared a national disaster due to the worsening food shortages. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15551464.htm]

==[[14 October]] [[2005]] (Friday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] The [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA) rebel leader, [[Joseph Kony]], has been indicted on 33 charges before the [[International Criminal Court]] (ICC) for [[crime against humanity|crimes against humanity]]. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510140791.html (allAfrica)]

==[[13 October]] [[2005]] (Thursday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Sudan.svg|20px]] The [[United Nations]] is to evacuate some staff from [[Sudan]]'s [[West Darfur]] state because of an increase in violence. U.N. officials said that the violence had hindered aid access to 650,000 refugees in the region. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1373226.htm (Reuters)]

==[[12 October]] [[2005]] (Wednesday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Somalia.svg|20px]]  Six armed [[Somali]] [[pirate]]s [[wiktionary:Hijack|hijack]] the [[MV Miltzow]] , a [[freighter]] that is carrying [[United Nations]] food aid. After its cargo of 850 tonnes of food aid is being offloaded in the port of [[Merka]], ship is being forced to sail down the coast to [[Barawa]] before being released two days later. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14511711.htm (Reuters)]

==[[11 October]] [[2005]] (Tuesday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Malawi.svg|20px]]  [[2005 Malawi food crisis]]: [[SOS Children's Villages|SOS Children]] launches emergency food program around Lilongwe and Mzuzu [http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/malawi-emergency-famine.htm (Malawi Crisis)]

* [[Image:Flag of Liberia.svg|20px]]  [[Liberian elections, 2005]]: [[Liberia]]ns head for the poll today to select a new president, 30 senators and 64 representatives for the lower house of parliament. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510110762.html (allAfrica)]

==[[10 October]] [[2005]] (Monday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]]  The former [[President of Uganda|President]] of [[Uganda]], [[Milton Obote]], has died of [[kidney failure]] at the age of 80. Obote led the [[East Africa]]n country from [[1962]]-[[1971]] and again from [[1980]]-[[1985]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4328834.stm (BBC)]

* [[Image:Flag of The Gambia.svg|20px]] The city of [[Brikama]] in [[Gambia]] is plunged into a housing crisis when over two thousand people remained homeless following the demolition of their residential compounds.  [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510110937.html (allAfrica)]

==[[8 October]] [[2005]] (Saturday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Angola.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ghana.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Togo.svg|20px]]  [[Image:Flag of Tunisia.svg|20px]]  [[Angola national football team|Angola]], [[Cote d'Ivoire national football team|Côte d'Ivoire]], [[Ghana national football team|Ghana]], [[Togo national football team|Togo]], and [[Tunisia national football team|Tunisia]] qualify for the [[Football World Cup 2006]].

* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] [[Uganda Human Rights Commission]], in its 2004 report, states that at least 4,000 children who were among the tens of thousands abducted by the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] rebels cannot be traced. It accuses the [[Uganda People's Defence Forces]] (UPDF) of torturing civilians in the north by using brutal methods to extract information or to instill discipline in suspects. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510070657.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Liberia.svg|20px]] The [[United States Department of State]] says that it will send a high-level delegation to [[Liberia]] to monitor the upcoming [[Liberian elections, 2005|presidential and parliamentary elections]]. [http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-10-08-voa5.cfm (VOA)]

* [[Image:Flag of Algeria.svg|20px]] A group of [[Al Qaeda]]-aligned Islamic militants, belonging to the [[Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat]] (GSPC) shoot dead three civilians and wounded two others in [[Jijel]] province, [[Algeria]], a week after Algerian voters backed an amnesty for rebels aimed to end 13 years of [[Algerian Civil War]] that cost over 100,000 lives. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/AHM837926.htm (Reuters)]

==[[7 October]] [[2005]] (Friday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Namibia.svg|20px]] [[Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit]] (NEPRU) in its report states that the high [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] adult prevalence rate in [[Namibia]] of 21 percent is affecting the subsistence farmers' ability to grow enough food. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510070463.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Niger.svg|20px]] The [[International Federation of Red Cross]] and [[Red Crescent Societies]] sign contracts to distribute 2,265,000 [[mosquito]] nets in [[Niger]] in December 2005 to help protect 3.5 million children. This distribution is to be funded by USD11.3 million from the [[Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria]] and USD2 million from the [[Canadian International Development Agency]] through the [[Canadian Red Cross]]. [http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6GXFLP?OpenDocument (ReliefWeb)]

==[[6 October]] [[2005]] (Thursday) == 

* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] Five leaders of the [[Lord's Resistance Army]], a rebel group begun in [[Uganda]], are targeted by the first arrest warrants to be issued by the [[International Criminal Court]]. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4317852.stm (BBC)]

* [[Image:Flag of Gabon.svg|20px]] [[Gabon]] announces that the [[Gabon presidential election, 2005|presidential election]] is to be held on [[27 November]] with security forces voting two days earlier, but opposition denounces the move as a ruse for [[ballot]] rigging.  [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060596.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Tanzania.svg|20px]] A [[USD]]$35 million [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] treatment centre opens at [[Tanzania]]'s [[Muhimbili National Hospital]], the country main referral hospital. The centre has the capacity to process up to 1,000 tests per hour. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060511.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Zimbabwe.svg|20px]] [[Zimbabwe]] is facing increasing threat of military revolt, as soldiers are increasingly dissatisfied by the government's failure to increase their salaries and by chronic food shortages at their barracks. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510060054.html (allAfrica)]

==[[4 October]] [[2005]] (Tuesday) == 
* [[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] Four [[Uganda]]n civilians have been killed in a rare afternoon [[ambush]] on a [[pickup truck]] in north east Uganda by [[Lord's Resistance Army]] rebels. The insurgents are suspected of shooting the driver and two passengers and killing a fourth with an axe. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4307558.stm (BBC News)]

* [[Image:Flag of Malawi.svg|20px]] The [[Malawi]] government says that 650,000 people in the country have died due to [[AIDS]] in the past two decades. There are now 850,000 orphan children, 50% of these are a result of AIDS. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510040210.html (allAfrica)]

* [[Image:Flag of Rwanda.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Congo Kinshasa 1997.svg|20px]] The [[United Nations Security Council]] demands that [[Rwandan]] rebels, the [[Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda]] (FDLR), to disarm and leave [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] immediately. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04695444.htm (Reuters)]

* [[Image:Flag of Congo Kinshasa 1997.svg|20px]] Two [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] soldiers died and eleven others injured in a plane crash as the [[United Nations]] and [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]'s army airlifted local troops to the northeastern frontier to confront  [[Ugandan]] [[Lord's Resistance Army]] rebels. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04708418.htm (Reuters)]

==[[3 October]] [[2005]] (Monday) == 

*[[Image:Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg|20px]] [[West Africa]]n leaders call for the strengthening of [[United Nations]] peacekeeping force to ensure efforts to end the three year [[civil war in Côte d'Ivoire]] pay off. A total 6,640 peacekeepers are currently serving in the UN force, which is under [[Senegalese]] command, monitoring the buffer zone between the north and south with the help of 4,000 [[France|French]] troops.[http://allafrica.com/stories/200510030665.html (allAfrica)]

*[[Image:Flag of South Africa.svg|20px]] [[South Africa]] announces a [[Rand (currency)|R]]140 million ([[USD]] $22 million) donation to the [[United Nations]] [[World Food Programme]] (WFP) and the [[Food and Agriculture Organisation]] (FAO) to alleviate food shortages in [[Southern Africa]]. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510030672.html (allAfrica)]

==[[2 October]] [[2005]] (Sunday)== 

*[[Image:Flag of Liberia.svg|20px]] [[Liberian elections, 2005]]: the Supreme Court of [[Liberia]] rules that the National Elections Commission (NEC) had erred by rejecting three candidates on grounds that their registration documents were incomplete. The court says that NEC must provide the disqualified contenders with sufficient time to correct the deficiencies that barred them from being on the ballot. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510020143.html (allAfrica)]

*[[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] [[Uganda]] Army is deploying troops to West [[Nile]] in readiness for an imminent military combat against the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] at the border with the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]]. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510020079.html (allAfrica)]

*[[Image:Flag of Kenya.svg|20px]] [[African Development Bank]] (ADB) is funding the [[Kimira-Oluch Irrigation project]] in [[Homa Bay]] and [[Rachuonyo District]] in [[Kenya]] at a cost of [[Kenyan Shilling|Sh3]] billion, in a move to control flooding and increase food production in the region. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510020142.html (allAfrica)]

==[[1 October]] [[2005]] (Saturday)==
*[[Image:Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg|20px]] [[João Bernardo Vieira]] becomes the new President of [[Guinea-Bissau]]; he faces a massive [[cholera]] epidemic and fears of continuing political instability in the country. [http://allafrica.com/stories/200510030675.html]

==[[30 September]] [[2005]] (Friday)==
*[[Image:Flag of Malawi.svg|20px]]  [[United Nations]] [[World Food Programme]] warns that a sharp increase in [[malnutrition]] rates and rapidly rising [[maize]] prices in [[Malawi]] could push the number of vulnerable people in need of food aid up to five million. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/674fd22d87c7281b2f5364625ed502f4.htm (Reuters)]
*[[Image:Flag of Egypt.svg|20px]]  [[Egypt]] is deciding to take precautionary measures against any possible attack by swarms of [[locust]]s. [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/91da22746cc7123fd42cd3b2bfcd0e44.htm (Reuters)]
*[[Image:Flag of Uganda.svg|20px]] [[United Nations]] calls on [[Uganda]] to ban the practices of [[child sacrifice]] and [[female genital mutilation]] in the country. The U.N. [[Committee on the Rights of the Child]] also urges the [[Kampala]] government to step up efforts in preventing youth abduction by the rebel [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA). [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30538483.htm (Reuters)]

==[[26 May]] [[2005]]==
*[[Image:Flag of South Africa.svg|20px]] In [[South Africa]], [[Geographical Names Council]] approved changing the name of South Africa's capital to [[Tshwane]] from [[Pretoria]], in spite of protests.[http://www.reuters.co.za/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp;:4295f5f1:d21ad5eebd3e58a?type=topNews&localeKey=en_ZA&storyID=8617464 (Reuters)]

== News collections and sources ==
* [[Wikipedia:News collections and sources]].
* [[Wikipedia:News sources]] - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage [[NPOV]] in our news reporting.
* [http://allafrica.com/ allAfrica.com]
* [http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/countryprofiles/africa.htm Reuters, Africa]
* [http://www.reliefweb.int|ReliefWeb]

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