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 […]

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA Tweet Control When Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information and Culture announced a new ban on Twitter on June […]

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA Living Ghosts Thousands have perished and more than 2 million people have fled their homes in Tigray, a […]

NEED TO KNOW KENYA Tribal Laws Violence frequently mars elections in Kenya. As the Council on Foreign Relations explained, voters in the […]

NEED TO KNOW SOMALILAND Unrecognized, Undaunted Somaliland declared independence from Somalia 30 years ago as the latter was collapsing. Today, the self-declared […]

NEED TO KNOW SEYCHELLES Worry and Leisure Americans Shivani Pathak and Bo Sutton were both vaccinated when they went to the Seychelles […]

NEED TO KNOW KENYA Eviction Notice Kenya intends to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps that together host more than 430,000 […]

NEED TO KNOW CHAD After the King President Idriss Deby recently won reelection to a sixth term to continue his grip on […]

NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA Denier-In-Chief The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, denied that Covid-19 was real. The virus likely proved him wrong. […]

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA Hunger Games Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago for his hand […]

NEED TO KNOW MOZAMBIQUE Domino Theory People used stones and bedsheets to write “Help” and “SOS” on the ground in a desperate […]

NEED TO KNOW CAPE VERDE When the Giants Come Calling To Venezuela, Alex Saab is a diplomat. To the US, he is […]