October 2005 in Africa - 8 October 2005 (Saturday)

8 October 2005 (Saturday)

• Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Tunisia qualify for the Football World Cup 2006.

• Uganda Human Rights Commission, in its 2004 report, states that at least 4,000 children who were among the tens of thousands abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army rebels cannot be traced. It accuses the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) of torturing civilians in the north by using brutal methods to extract information or to instill discipline in suspects. (allAfrica)

• The United States Department of State says that it will send a high-level delegation to Liberia to monitor the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. (VOA)

• A group of Al Qaeda-aligned Islamic militants, belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) shoot dead three civilians and wounded two others in Jijel province, Algeria, a week after Algerian voters backed an amnesty for rebels aimed to end 13 years of Algerian Civil War that cost over 100,000 lives. (Reuters)