October 2005 in Africa - 6 October 2005 (Thursday)

6 October 2005 (Thursday)

• Five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group begun in Uganda, are targeted by the first arrest warrants to be issued by the International Criminal Court. (BBC)

• Gabon announces that the presidential election is to be held on 27 November with security forces voting two days earlier, but opposition denounces the move as a ruse for ballot rigging. (allAfrica)

• A USD$35 million HIV/AIDS treatment centre opens at Tanzania's Muhimbili National Hospital, the country main referral hospital. The centre has the capacity to process up to 1,000 tests per hour. (allAfrica)

• Zimbabwe is facing increasing threat of military revolt, as soldiers are increasingly dissatisfied by the government's failure to increase their salaries and by chronic food shortages at their barracks. (allAfrica)