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, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Bombs of Ambition SUDAN This week, downtown Khartoum became a war zone. Fighters have been attacking residents, United […]

NEED TO KNOW Fathers and Sons UGANDA Muhoozi Kainerugaba is the son of the long-serving president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, a 78-year-old […]

NEED TO KNOW The Spiral BURKINA FASO Security forces in Burkina Faso recently murdered a 16-year-old boy and others in Ouahigouya, a […]

NEED TO KNOW The Hero and the Strongman RWANDA When ethnic Hutu militants committed genocide against members of the minority ethnic Tutsi […]

NEED TO KNOW When Hate Comes To Town TUNISIA Tunisian President Kais Saied has recently been claiming that migrants originating from sub-Saharan […]

NEED TO KNOW Coming Due GHANA Officials in Ghana’s finance ministry recently said talks to restructure its debt to China were “highly […]

NEED TO KNOW Second Thoughts SUDAN Sudan’s military junta has been colluding with an affiliate of Russian military contractor the Wagner Group […]

NEED TO KNOW Giving Back Paradise CHAGOS ISLANDS In the 1960s, British leaders were in the final stages of dismantling the empire […]

NEED TO KNOW Quite the Handoff NIGERIA Rioters in Nigeria recently attacked banks and blockaded roads to express their anger over the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Puppetmasters ZIMBABWE Police in Zimbabwe recently arrested more than two dozen members of the Citizens Coalition for Change […]

NEED TO KNOW Lights Out SOUTH AFRICA André de Ruyter launched investigations into corruption and organized crime at South Africa’s state-owned energy […]

NEED TO KNOW Sharp Elbows MOROCCO Moroccan lawmakers recently voted to “reconsider” their North African country’s relationship with the European Union. The […]

NEED TO KNOW The Morning After ETHIOPIA The war between Ukraine and Russia has understandably garnered much attention over the past year. […]

NEED TO KNOW Rags to Riches BOTSWANA Sprawling, landlocked, relatively lightly populated Botswana enjoys a higher gross domestic product per capita than […]

NEED TO KNOW Theme Park Politics BENIN Al Qaeda and Islamic State extremists are gaining a foothold in Africa as the Russian-Ukrainian […]