NEED TO KNOW Too Many Cooks MALI Armed men riding motorcycles shot and killed two Red Cross workers in western Mali recently, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Old Malignancy WEST AFRICA Sixty alleged terrorists on motorcycles attacked a military checkpoint in Kpinkankandi on the Togo […]

NEED TO KNOW A Faustian Bargain CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Soldiers with links to Russia recently beat, tortured and executed civilians in the […]

NEED TO KNOW When the Show Doesn’t Go On SOUTH AFRICA Environmentalists on the Wild Coast, a region of South Africa, are […]

NEED TO KNOW No Free Lunch ANGOLA Angolans traditionally offer meals of cornmeal or cassava porridge and beans with palm oil in […]

NEED TO KNOW Looky, Looky SOMALILAND Though technically part of war-torn Somalia, Somaliland declared independence in 1991, has governed itself for 30 […]

NEED TO KNOW Shopping Around AFRICA Around 45 percent of the European Union’s gas comes from Russia. In the next few months, […]

NEED TO KNOW A Long, Crooked Road SOMALIA Al-Shabab terrorists recently killed five people, including two children, in an attack in the […]

NEED TO KNOW The Sentiments of Coups BURKINA FASO A series of coups have rocked West Africa in recent weeks. The latest, […]

NEED TO KNOW Easy Come, Easy Go MALI Leaders in Mali recently ordered Danish troops out of the country, saying they never […]

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 […]