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1. Nigeria: Lagos Fashion Week Looks Beyond The Catwalk To Fashion's Future

   [Bird Story Agency] A new coalition is challenging African fashion to turn its long traditions of repair, reuse and community production into a modern industrial strategy that keeps more jobs, knowledge and economic value on the continent.

2. Kenya: Kenya Rebuilds The Cotton Chain From Field To Fabric

   [Bird Story Agency] Farmers are returning to cotton in coastal Kenya, while a new ginnery and one of the country's few surviving integrated textile mills are rebuilding links from field to factory.

3. Ethiopia: Fano Claims Capture of More Than 150 Ethiopian Soldiers in Amhara Clashes

   [Shabelle] Amhara -- Ethiopia's Fano militia has claimed it captured more than 150 soldiers from the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) following heavy fighting in the Wadla-Delanta-Dawunt area of the Amhara region on September 8.

4. Kenya: Finance Should Work Around How Customers Actually Earn, says Watu Kenya's Damien Gueroult

   [allAfrica] Watu Kenya Country Manager Damien Gueroult says serving customers outside traditional banking starts with understanding how they earn, what they use financing for and what it takes to lend sustainably.

5. Nigeria: Academic Union Threatens Nationwide Strike

   [Premium Times] The union said its decision was prompted by the government's failure to fully implement the December 2025 agreement reached after years of negotiations.