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1. Nigeria: Nigeria Confirms Ebola Case in Abuja, Begins Contact Tracing

   [Premium Times] Contact tracing has commenced, with 44 close contacts identified so far.

2. Africa: Every Country Has a Balance Sheet - Development Cooperation Should Start There

   [RootsToFoods Capital Series] In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Alexia Latortue, Head of Secretariat of the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition and former U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary, explains why a system designed after the Second World War must be redesigned around countries' own visions, and why she is not in the camp that says aid is dead.

3. Malawi: Malawi Families Squeezed Again As Cost of Basic Needs Surges

   [Nyasa Times] Malawian households have been dealt another painful cost of living blow after the amount needed by a typical family of six to cover basic needs climbed to almost K1.15 million a month in September.

4. Cameroon: Online Fraud Is Becoming a Gateway to Human Trafficking in Cameroon

   [ISS] Criminal networks exploit job seekers' aspirations, turning promises of employment abroad into schemes involving detention, extortion and forced recruitment.

5. Nigeria: National Grid Crashes 81 Percent to 675mw, As 9 Plants Go Off

   [Vanguard] Abuja -- Nigeria's grid electricity supply crashed by 81.5 per cent to 675 megawatts (MW) at 1pm on Monday from 3,647MW, following a drop in the number of power plants supplying the national grid from 21 to 2.