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 […]

NEED TO KNOW CHAD Paris’ Man When Chadian President Idriss Deby accepted the nomination for a sixth term in office from the […]

NEED TO KNOW DJIBOUTI Location, Location Tiny Djibouti is one of the few countries that hosts both Chinese as well as American, […]

NEED TO KNOW BENIN Cotton and the King Benin had been known as a bastion of democracy in West Africa. But in […]

NEED TO KNOW SENEGAL To Whom Go The Spoils Security forces killed at least five men in Senegal recently. Demonstrators were protesting […]

NEED TO KNOW REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO The Emperor’s Old Clothes President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville […]

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA Suffer the Children Bandits recently released 279 Nigerian girls kidnapped recently from their school in Zamfara, a state […]

NEED TO KNOW GUINEA Muscle Memory Officials in Guinea are quickly vaccinating citizens to stop a dangerous virus from killing people. Covid-19 […]

NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA Division, Disease and Doubts South Africa was going to launch a massive campaign to inject its citizens […]

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA Making Peace, Making War Asmelash Woldeselassie survived a bombing that cost him his sight during a civil war […]

NEED TO KNOW UGANDA Of Bullies and Pulpits Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 76, won reelection to a sixth term in January, preserving […]

NEED TO KNOW UGANDA Against All Odds Ugandan presidential candidate Bob Wine, a reggae star-cum-opposition leader, recently accused the driver of a […]

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA A War on Children Chibok became a black mark on Nigeria’s history. That’s where Boko Haram fighters kidnapped […]

NEED TO KNOW NIGER A Question of Lives Boko Haram militants affiliated with the Islamic State killed 28 people and burned 800 […]