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 […]

NEED TO KNOW Nowhere To Go But Up SOMALIA Somali government forces and local militias recently won a pitched battle against al-Shabab, […]

NEED TO KNOW White Noise TUNISIA The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) recently attacked Tunisian President Kais Saied in the run-up to […]

NEED TO KNOW White Rock Politics GUINEA-BISSAU Braima Seidi Ba and Ricardo Ariza Monje thought they could stuff nearly 2 tons of […]

NEED TO KNOW New Money, Old Problems NIGERIA Nigeria recently launched newly designed currency notes in denominations of 200, 500, and 1,000 […]

NEED TO KNOW Waving Bye-Bye EGYPT Shortly before Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi hosted world leaders for the United Nations Climate Change Conference […]

NEED TO KNOW ‘The Hungriest Place on Earth’ SOMALILAND Photographer Misan Harriman was openly distressed after journeying to Somaliland to document how […]

NEED TO KNOW Blood and Soil TANZANIA The Tanzanian government describes the transfer of ethnic Maasai people from their traditional homelands as […]

NEED TO KNOW Turning to the World ALGERIA Algeria’s authoritarian rulers have a mixed relationship with globalization. After winning independence from France […]

NEED TO KNOW A Moment to Exhale GUINEA Djenabou Bah was nine years old in 2009 when she attended a protest against […]

NEED TO KNOW Try, Try Again BURKINA FASO Protesters took to the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, recently to […]

NEED TO KNOW The Kingdom and the Chaos LESOTHO Born in Shanghai in China, Zhenyu Shao moved to Lesotho 25 years ago […]

NEED TO KNOW The Best Man for the Job UGANDA An Ebola outbreak is occurring in Uganda, raising fears that the country […]

NEED TO KNOW Going A-Courting AFRICA In the universe of Marvel Comics, Wakanda is a secret kingdom in sub-Saharan Africa ruled over […]

NEED TO KNOW Wasting Away SOMALIA Death has two faces in Somalia these days. If famine doesn’t claim one’s life in the […]