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Kate Foster seated behind the United Kingdom placard while speaking at the UN Security Council. — Kate Foster addresses the UN Security Council on Sudan, New York, 16 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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**Kate Foster addresses the Security Council on Sudan, 16 October 2026**
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Sudan’s mediation tracks approach Geneva with civilian political participation at stake

State, authority & accountability International relations & political economy

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Participants in a public group photograph at the EAC Children Summit on Climate Change — Participants at the first EAC Children Summit on Climate Change, Parliament, Kampala, 16 October 2026. Parliament of Uganda / APO Group.
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**Participants at the first EAC Children Summit on Climate Change, Parliament, Kampala, 16 October 2026**
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Kampala summit puts children’s participation on the regional climate agenda

State, authority & accountability Security, borders & Pan-Africanism

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Musalia Mudavadi speaking at a lectern at the National Defence College — Musalia Mudavadi addresses the National Defence College in Karen, Nairobi, 14 October 2026. Kenya Ministry of Defence / APO Group.
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**Musalia Mudavadi addresses the National Defence College in Karen, Nairobi, 14 October 2026**
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Kenya’s defence-college lecture places diplomacy inside the security debate

State, authority & accountability International relations & political economy

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Vice-President Sebastien Pillay speaks at a table with microphones, with the Seychelles flag behind him. — Vice-President Sebastien Pillay at State House, Seychelles, during the 14 October 2026 briefing on public-service digital reform. Photo: State House Seychelles / APO Group.
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**Vice-President at the 14 October 2026 public-service briefing**
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Seychelles sets a 2027 HR-system transition goal within wider public-service reform

Development, labour & the African city

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Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth in ceremonial robes among colleagues after a sitting of Uganda’s Parliament. — Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth leaves Uganda’s Parliament after the plenary sitting on 14 October 2026. Photo: Parliament of Uganda / APO Group.
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**Speaker leaves Uganda Parliament after the 14 October 2026 sitting**
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Uganda’s Parliament seeks a charcoal-enforcement pause and answers on energy alternatives

Development, labour & the African city Gender, inequality & social experience

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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Christian Rogg with their teams beside a Ghana flag — Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and British High Commissioner Christian Rogg with their teams, Ghana, 9 October 2026. Ghana MFA / APO Group.
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**Ghana foreign minister and UK High Commissioner, 9 October 2026**
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Ghana brings reparatory justice into its 9 October talks with the UK

Security, borders & Pan-Africanism History, culture & knowledge

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Fuh Calistus Gentry and Maria van der Hoeven standing before an EITI banner — Fuh Calistus Gentry and EITI Board Chair Maria van der Hoeven at their meeting in Brussels, 9 October 2026. MINMIDT / APO Group.
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**Cameroon minister and EITI Board chair, Brussels, 9 October 2026**
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Cameroon seeks an end to its EITI suspension; civil-society participation remains central

Development, labour & the African city

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Denys Denya speaking at a lectern at the Africa Credit Rating Agency launch in Mauritius — Denys Denya, Senior Executive Vice President of Afreximbank, addresses the launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency in Port Louis, Mauritius, 7 October 2026.
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**AfCRA launch, Port Louis, 7 October 2026**
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Africa’s new credit-rating agency puts data and independence at the centre of financial sovereignty

State, authority & accountability

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A conference participant holding a microphone at the Language Diversity Conference in Accra — A participant speaks on the opening day of the Language Diversity Conference in Accra, Ghana, 2 October 2026.
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History, culture & knowledgeNews

After Accra’s language conference, African communities put knowledge control on the agenda

State, authority & accountability Gender, inequality & social experience

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