NEED TO KNOW  Protests and Funerals: Kenyan President’s Failure to Listen Threatens Kenya’s Stability  KENYA  Vendor Boniface Kariuki, 22, was selling masks […]

NEED TO KNOW  Gold-Digging: Mali Fights Mining Companies To Battle Rebels and Terrorists  MALI  Last week, Mali’s military government seized more than […]

NEED TO KNOW  To Move Forward, Look Back, Some South Africans Say  SOUTH AFRICA  In the township of Masiphumelele near Cape Town […]

NEED TO KNOW  Bitcoin Dreams: In Kenya’s Largest Slum, Residents Hope For a Crypto Lift  KENYA  In Africa’s largest slum, Kibera, Dotea […]

NEED TO KNOW  El Dorado in the Sahara: Western Sahara Booms As Tensions Grow  WESTERN SAHARA The road from the northern border […]

NEED TO KNOW  When the Walls Close In: Multiple Crises Create Mass Displacement in Cameroon  CAMEROON  In April, a Cameroonian national living in […]

NEED TO KNOW  In Guinea, a Military Junta Borrows the Leaders-For-Life Playbook  GUINEA  When Guinea’s military leader, Mamadi Doumbouya, initially seized power […]

NEED TO KNOW  As Elections Approach and Regional Tensions Rise, Burundi Chooses the Status Quo  BURUNDI  Burundi officially kicked off its 2025 […]

NEED TO KNOW  When Promise Withers: Tanzania’s Leader Starts Using an Old Playbook  TANZANIA  When Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan took office […]

NEED TO KNOW  Miracle, Derailed? Ivory Coast’s Success Threatened By Election Gambit  IVORY COAST  The small, West African country of Ivory Coast […]

NEED TO KNOW  Threats and Promises: Uganda Gets Tough at Home and Abroad  UGANDA  Ugandan leaders have worked closely with the military […]

NEED TO KNOW  Meta Action Against Meta: Kenya Hosts Lawsuits Against Big Tech With Global Implications  KENYA  In April, the European Union […]

NEED TO KNOW  In the Central African Republic, the Hired Guns Wear Out Their Welcome  CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC  Earlier this month, Bangui, […]

NEED TO KNOW  A Perfect Storm: A New Civil War in South Sudan Threatens Entire Region  SOUTH SUDAN  When oil-rich South Sudan […]

NEED TO KNOW The Emperor’s New Clothes: Coup Leader Ahead in Gabon’s Elections GABON In August 2023, Gabon’s rulers were deposed in […]

NEED TO KNOW When the Sky Falls: Lesotho Says US Tariffs Will ‘Kill’ the Country LESOTHO When US President Donald Trump mentioned […]

NEED TO KNOW Friends and Enemies: Guinea-Bissau President Takes the Rocky Road GUINEA-BISSAU The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) aims […]

NEED TO KNOW The Terrors of the North: Jihadists, Bandits and Vigilantes Grow Stronger in Nigeria NIGERIA Last fall, about 50 motorcycles […]

NEED TO KNOW When a Faulty Peace Sows War ETHIOPIA In November 2022, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace deal […]

NEED TO KNOW Naming and Shaming: Liberia Gets Serious About Corruption LIBERIA Eight years ago, Liberia’s long-serving then-president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, admitted […]

NEED TO KNOW Out of One, Many SUDAN Late last month, Sudan’s army (SAF) entered the central Sudanese city of Wad Medani […]

NEED TO KNOW The Land and the Fury SOUTH AFRICA In 1652, the Dutch arrived on the shores of modern-day South Africa, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Contagion SOMALIA   On Feb. 1, US President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS) jihadists in […]

NEED TO KNOW Here, Again DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO For years, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have set their sights on capturing […]