NEED TO KNOW Books and Bombs SOMALIA A locally filmed, 10-part television series about Mogadishu high school students called “Arday” hit the […]

NEED TO KNOW Bittersweet Chocolate IVORY COAST Half of the dark chocolate in the world comes from cocoa that originates from Ivory […]

NEED TO KNOW The Devils You Know LIBERIA The Supreme Court of Liberia last week called on the West African country’s National […]

NEED TO KNOW An Absolute Problem ESWATINI Late last year, pro-democracy activists, political dissidents, and others gathered in South Africa to discuss […]

NEED TO KNOW Bricks and Blood MOROCCO Mohammed Ounasser lost his wife and two daughters when a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Morocco […]

NEED TO KNOW Scattered and Scarred ERITREA Recently, the Israeli government appropriated $7.85 million to “encourage the voluntary repatriation of infiltrators” and […]

NEED TO KNOW A Worn Out Welcome GABON The leaders of the Aug. 30 coup that ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba of […]

NEED TO KNOW Old Story, New Horrors SUDAN Sudan’s military-led central government and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force formerly […]

NEED TO KNOW All the Spoils GABON Gabon and the Bank of America recently finalized a “debt-for-nature swap,” the first on the […]

NEED TO KNOW Lose, Lose ZIMBABWE Police in Zimbabwe arrested 40 leaders of the opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change (CCC) party on […]

NEED TO KNOW Palace Intrigue NIGER Two years ago, the president of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, was elected in the West African country’s […]

NEED TO KNOW The Hired Hands CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) around […]

NEED TO KNOW Moving On ETHIOPIA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed claims that he is remaining neutral in the civil war now […]

NEED TO KNOW Twenty Years SUDAN The Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, the rebel paramilitary group fighting against the central government of […]

NEED TO KNOW Gassed NIGERIA One of Bola Tinubu’s first actions, when he became president of Nigeria in May, was eliminating the […]

NEED TO KNOW Cracks in the Foundation SENEGAL Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko has filed a 170-page-long court complaint in France against […]

NEED TO KNOW Pushing For Normal SIERRA LEONE Samura Kamara, the leader of the All People’s Congress (APC) party and the main […]

NEED TO KNOW Direction: Hopelessness CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Fighting in the civil war in Sudan has prompted 14,000 refugees to flee across […]

NEED TO KNOW Musical Chairs SOUTH AFRICA Apartheid, or legal segregation based on race, ended in South Africa almost 30 years ago. […]

NEED TO KNOW Seed to Stem GUINEA-BISSAU Farmers in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau are planting their maize, millet, and sorghum in […]

NEED TO KNOW Inch By Inch MAURITANIA Voters in Mauritania cast ballots in parliamentary and local government elections on May 13 and […]

NEED TO KNOW Comforting the Afflicters MALI Government troops and foreign fighters – allegedly soldiers affiliated with the Wagner Group, the Russian […]

NEED TO KNOW Wobbly Dominoes SUDAN The civil war in Sudan has claimed hundreds of lives and forced more than 160,000 people […]

NEED TO KNOW Eldorado’s Slums MAYOTTE French authorities have dispatched more than 1,800 police officers and gendarmes as well as 500 prosecutors, […]