4 October 2005 (Tuesday)
- Four Ugandan civilians have been killed in a rare afternoon ambush on a pickup truck in north east Uganda by Lord's Resistance Army rebels. The insurgents are suspected of shooting the driver and two passengers and killing a fourth with an axe. (BBC News)
- The Malawi government says that 650,000 people in the country have died due to AIDS in the past two decades. There are now 850,000 orphan children, 50% of these are a result of AIDS. (allAfrica)
- Template:Country data Congo Kinshasa 1997 The United Nations Security Council demands that Rwandan rebels, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), to disarm and leave Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately. (Reuters)
- Two Congolese soldiers died and eleven others injured in a plane crash as the United Nations and Democratic Republic of the Congo's army airlifted local troops to the northeastern frontier to confront Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels. (Reuters)
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