10 October 2005 (Monday)
- The former President of Uganda, Milton Obote, has died of kidney failure at the age of 80. Obote led the East African country from 1962-1971 and again from 1980-1985. (BBC)
- The city of Brikama in Gambia is plunged into a housing crisis when over two thousand people remained homeless following the demolition of their residential compounds. (allAfrica)
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)