NEED TO KNOW Class is Sort Of in Session UGANDA More than half of Ugandan students stopped attending school at the beginning […]

NEED TO KNOW Falling From Grace BENIN Benin’s former justice minister, Reckya Madougou, had been planning to run for president against cotton […]

NEED TO KNOW The Propulsion of Desperation SIERRA LEONE When Alhaji Siraj Bah’s adopted family perished along with more than 1,400 people […]

NEED TO KNOW Epsilon, Kappa, Pi WORLD The experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) believe the speedy infection rate and unknown […]

NEED TO KNOW Blame Game WORLD If only those incompetent, disease-ridden Africans had worked harder to combat the spread of Covid-19, the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Politics of Atonement THE GAMBIA In 2017, after ruling the Gambia for 22 years, former dictator Yahya Jammeh […]

NEED TO KNOW Punching Above Its Weight ERITREA The US government recently imposed sanctions on Eritrea’s sole political party and military forces […]

NEED TO KNOW Heeding Candide MAURITANIA Algeria recently accused Moroccan forces of killing three Algerian citizens who were driving a truck from […]

NEED TO KNOW Like Father, Like Son CHAD Earlier this year, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno wanted to command his troops fighting […]

NEED TO KNOW Leadership in Retrograde SUDAN After widespread protests and violence, President Omar al-Bashir stepped down as president of Sudan in […]

NEED TO KNOW A Working Democracy CAPE VERDE The people of Cape Verde work hard to improve their country. Some have formed […]

NEED TO KNOW Going Nowhere Fast SOUTH SUDAN Recent fighting over cattle rustling, kidnappings and revenge killings has claimed scores of lives […]

NEED TO KNOW Move Over, Ivory SOUTH AFRICA South Africa extradited a South Korean citizen to the US last year for trafficking […]

NEED TO KNOW ESWATINI The Absolute In southern Eswatini – a small, landlocked country bordering Mozambique and South Africa formerly known as […]

NEED TO KNOW GUINEA The Price of Democracy The lives of Guineans and the wallets of industries everywhere were thrown into disarray […]

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA Remember the Children Gunmen in Nigeria freed nearly a hundred kidnapped school children recently. Families in Nigeria’s north-central […]

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA When the Levee Breaks Rebels seeking to separate their region from Ethiopia, the Oromo Liberation Army, have been […]

NEED TO KNOW AFRICA Fighting the Undertow Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was sworn in as president Tuesday after a stunning defeat […]

NEED TO KNOW ZAMBIA A Storm Is Brewing Zambian President Edgar Lungu deployed the army after clashes between members of his ruling […]

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NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA Sparking Tinder The BBC video of a woman throwing her baby out of a burning building illustrates […]

NEED TO KNOW SUDAN Atonement Around 18 years ago, the Sudanese region of Darfur was synonymous with violence and tragedy. Not much […]

NEED TO KNOW WEST AFRICA The Hardest Word President Emmanuel Macron recently apologized for his country’s role in the massacre of thousands […]

NEED TO KNOW BURKINA FASO Who Matters? Angelina Jolie recently visited war-ravaged Burkina Faso to bring attention to – and generate help […]