By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on 7info
Five members of the same family, including three children aged between 3 and 7, died in a fire in Oumé, Ivory Coast. The fire broke out in the Zinta district on the night of 22 to 23 October 2026, and an investigation has been opened to determine its cause, according to 7info.
Five members of the same family, a couple and their three children aged between three and seven, died in a fire in Oumé, Ivory Coast. The fire broke out during the night of 22 to 23 October 2026, in the Zinta district, reports the Ivorian Press Agency.
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast · Source: Aip ·
The third edition of the Abidjan Border Forum ended on 22 October 2026 at the Abidjan Exhibition Centre, after three days devoted to cross-border cooperation in Africa. Discussions focused on three priorities, according to L’Infodrome.
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast · Source: L’Infodrome ·
Flooding affected 673,350 people in 134 local government areas across 28 Nigerian states, killing 245 and displacing 214,997 people as of 20 October 2026, according to the National Emergency Management Agency. The agency called for stronger coordination and preparedness ahead of the 2026-2027 El Niño phenomenon.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Source: Punch ·
A van hit seven pupils aged between five and 12 in Aboabo, in Ghana’s Ashanti Region, killing four and injuring three. The driver was arrested and police are investigating the causes of the loss of control, the Ghanaian Times reports.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Source: Ghanaiantimes ·
Abidjan Metro compensates 11,644 affected peopleThe Abidjan Metro Line 1 project has already compensated 11,644 of the 15,316 people affected, with 74 billion CFA francs mobilised. The state plans to provide an additional 10 billion and still has 2,812 cases to process, according to Cissé Moustapha, the project’s authorising officer, quoted by AIP.
Nigeria's Ebola patient likely infected in Uganda, Switzerland saysThe Ebola patient in Nigeria, the Ugandan wife of a Swiss diplomat, is believed to have contracted the virus during a stay in Uganda about two weeks earlier. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs told Reuters that she had been receiving treatment at a private clinic in Abuja for nearly a week, while her husband has been isolated without symptoms.The week in Africa
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