18 October 2005 (Tuesday)
- The Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF) and Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have launched a joint operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, after the LRA ambushed a convoy of UPDF soldiers on October 14. (allAfrica)
- Malawi food crisis: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has increased its appeal for Malawi to USD13 million, as the humanitarian crisis worsen with an estimated 46,000 severely malnourished children. (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.”
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