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Copper-linked assets slipped as the dollar rose, while Escondida supervisors voted 95% to authorise a strike.

Gold and silver slid as the dollar and Treasury yields climbed and Fed minutes pointed to another rate rise.

The Colombian peso closed at 3,239 per dollar as annual inflation rose to 6.29% in September.

Argentina's Merval fell 2.51% as BBVA Argentina and Banco Macro slid, and country risk rose to 586 points.

The Ibovespa fell 0.74% to 204,302 for a second day as Vale and the big banks slid.

Tanzania and Mozambique’s defence ministers agreed in Dar es Salaam to deepen work against terrorism, smuggling and cross-border crime.

Tanzania’s planning minister asked Dutch investors in The Hague to back mining, agriculture and port logistics, from graphite to cashew nuts.

South Africa’s Black Business Council fears new US visa curbs could reach businesspeople who back economic transformation, not only officials.

Kenya’s Speaker suspended MP Ndindi Nyoro for five sitting days after he would not retract claims about the Kenya Pipeline IPO.

Nigeria’s financial-market dealers project a US$8.69 billion current account surplus for July to September, driven by oil and weaker imports.

A Pretoria high court has set aside the minister's decision to gazette South Africa's B-BBEE Legal Sector Code.

Senegal signed a US$151 million digital-factory agreement in Dakar on 6 October 2026 to assemble computers and phones locally.

AFG Bank Guinée and French development lender Proparco signed US$67 million in small-business loans and trade guarantees in Conakry on 6 October 2026.

Senegalese prosecutors have placed four men in custody over an alleged forged sale of a Dakar-Plateau plot worth about US$5.5 million.

Bolivia’s IMF programme foresees fuel prices reaching world levels in early 2027, as the subsidy falls from 6.2% of GDP in 2025 to zero, Unitel reports.

Ex-president Gustavo Petro dared President Abelardo de la Espriella to reopen re-election.

US agents seized 90 biodiesel shipments worth over US$2.8 million bound for ENETEC, a sanctioned Cuban fuel firm, at Florida and Texas ports.

Traffic through the Strait of Magellan rose more than 70% in August and September as drought limits ships at the Panama Canal, Chilean Navy data show.

Mexico's Senate voted unanimously to make hotels, rentals and transport firms check an adult's link to any child.

Peru’s copper output rose 3.7% to 236,515 tonnes in July, while zinc fell 22.2% and gold 9.0%, according to the Ministry of Energy and Mines.

IEA members back a faster release of emergency oil, with diesel first.

Peru's Senate approved two trips for President Keiko Fujimori on 7 October: El Salvador on 28-31 October and the Madrid summit on 2-6 November.

Peru's President Keiko Fujimori launched a joint force of 1,350 soldiers and police on 7 October, with a control centre at Army headquarters in Lima.

Argentina's president Javier Milei posted "Lula thief" on Instagram 18 days before Brazil's 25 October runoff, where markets favour Bolsonaro.

A boat that left The Gambia five days earlier brought 41 people to El Hierro on Wednesday, a day after a boat from Senegal landed 74, as arrivals pick up.

DR Congo will ban wooden whaleboats on its rivers and lakes from 15 November after deadly shipwrecks.

Residents of Vacoas and Phoenix in central Mauritius took to the streets on Wednesday after days without tap water.

Consumer prices in Mauritius were 5.7% higher in September than a year earlier, led by petrol, vegetables and university fees, the state statistics office says.

Smoke entered the school and about 200 pupils waited outside in Maripasoula, as a 57% rainfall shortfall fuels fires across French Guiana.

Unions, rights groups and civil society urge leave and an independent probe for Guyana's deputy police chief, who is presumed innocent.

Residents say Eritrean soldiers are in Adigrat in northern Ethiopia.

Private bus owners say Suriname's city fare could climb by up to 59% without subsidies, while the government weighs tighter subsidy rules.

A man is charged with murder after a woman was killed in Camopi, a remote Indigenous town in French Guiana.

Ghana’s annual inflation rose to 5.2% in September, the second monthly rise in a row, as services stayed costly.

Cusco in October 2026: Planetshakers on 17 October, Marcos Llunas on 24 October and a Halloween candlelight concert, with prices in US$.

Kampala in October 2026: Trade Fair to 11 October, PyCon Africa from 7 October and Independence Day on 9 October, with dates and venues checked.

Canada's proposed Pacific Link pipeline would add a second Pacific export route for Alberta oil, but US refiners would remain its biggest customers.

The first two of 66 Lockheed Martin F-16V Block 70 fighters landed in Taitung on October 2, 2026, after years of production delays.

Felabration runs 12 to 18 October and Design Week Lagos ticketed days 22 to 25 October.

Starlight at the Giza Pyramids on 9 and 10 October, Tul8te on 16 October and the 34th Arab Music Festival from 20 October.

An Ambrose Alli University lecturer died in an Ekpoma hotel on 5 October 2026; police hold three for questioning and no cause is announced.

Botero's Peace Dove fell at the National Museum of Colombia on 6 October.

The main wreckage of the Nigerian Air Force ATR 42 is still unlocated in an Ondo swamp, as the Navy turns to sonar and swamp buggies.

Who runs the South Africa economy in 2026: the Treasury, Reserve Bank, Eskom, Transnet, Naspers, Sasol, the big miners and the Rupert and Motsepe families.

Mexico population explained: INEGI counted 130.9 million people in 2025, with 24.2 million indigenous, 2.1 million Afro-Mexicans and a median age of 32.

Who runs the Ghana economy in 2026: President Mahama's team, the central bank, the gold and cocoa boards, oil firms and the top listed companies.

Who holds power in Nigeria: President Tinubu, the APC, a split opposition, the generals, judges and governors, and the 16 January 2027 election race.

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