COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 1,486,742 (+1.28%) Russia 290,678 (+3.17%) UK 244,995 (+1.46%) Brazil 241,080 (+3.24%) Spain 230,698 (0.00%)** Italy 225,435 (+0.30%) France 179,693 (+0.04%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 1,417,889 (+1.95%) Spain 272,646 (+0.57%) Russia 252,245 (+4.12%) UK 234,441 (+1.50%) Italy 223,096 (+0.45%) Brazil 203,165 (+6.85%) France 178,994 (+0.45%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 1,347,936 (+1.36%) Spain 268,143 (+1.31%) Russia 232,243 (+4.92%) UK 224,332 (+1.76%) Italy 219,814 (+0.34%) France 177,547 (+0.26%) Germany 172,576 (+0.41%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 1,228,609 (+2.00%) Spain 253,682 (+1.25%) Italy 214,457 (+0.68%) UK 202,359 (+3.12%) France 174,224 (+2.07%) Germany 168,162 (+0.69%) Russia 165,929 (+6.80%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 965,933 (+2.78%) Spain 226,629 (+1.28%) Italy 197,675 (+1.19%) France 162,220 (+0.34%) Germany 157,770 (+0.80%) UK 154,037 (+2.99%) Turkey 110,130 (+2.19%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: US 466,299 (+7.83%) Spain 153,222 (+3.37%) Italy 143,626 (+3.02%) France 118,785 (+5.17%) Germany 118,235 (+4.36%) China 82,924 (+0.07%) Iran 66,220 (+2.53%) ...
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COVID-19 Global Update More than 160 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*: China 81,591 (+0.04%) Italy 69,176 (+8.21%) US 55,225 (+18.89%) Spain 42,058 (+19.44%) Germany 32,991 (+13.54%) Iran 24,811 (+7.64%) France 22,635 (+12.38%) ...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/de0fc83e-2e7f-46a0-aca4-c509ed1cb6a4.png"] Moving Forward Sudan appears to be turning a corner. After years of war and famine in the East African country, Sudan’s so-called “transitional authorities” recently announced they would send the dictator they replaced last year, Omar al-Bashir, 76, to the International Criminal Court in...
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NEED TO KNOW GUINEA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/963d6fc3-90db-4090-ad9a-da882d906f12.png"] Mining for a New Leader International mining companies are circling around massive, high-quality ore deposits in Guinea. As Bloomberg reported, if the companies have their way, the small West African country could become the third-biggest exporter of iron ore in the world after...
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NEED TO KNOW CAMEROON [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6863deda-11be-43e3-9033-4bec4b249409.png"] A Question of Legitimacy Around 50,000 Cameroonian refugees have been flooding into Nigeria in recent weeks. They fear violence will flare up in the run-up to Cameroon’s local and parliamentary elections on February 9, wrote Voice of America. Four years ago, civil unrest overtook the...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW SOMALIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c56dd5fb-c2b6-48fc-91de-fc8608ae6104.png"] Spinning One’s Wheels Climate change is wreaking havoc in Somalia. People are making it worse. Massive locust swarms are plaguing the East African country and its neighbors. That’s a problem in a region where many sit on the precipice of famine. A swarm can...
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NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6c258edc-b123-4d47-98e3-f42e226ea64f.png"] Getting It Together As many as 3 million people died in the Nigerian civil war that ended 50 years ago this month. The war kicked off in 1967 when leaders in the country’s southeast declared an independent Republic of Biafra. This CNN story has...
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NEED TO KNOW AFRICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d9c9459-9302-4fc1-a060-e8206615789c.png"] The Next Big Thing Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is bullish on Africa. The continent has 1.3 billion people. Forty percent are younger than 16. Six of the world’s 10 fastest-growing economies are in Africa. The upside is astronomical. “Each time I go, I...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fb98f556-a59e-4b27-aa3b-2955230a318d.png"] Costly Speech In December, Tito Magoti was shopping for a new phone in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania, when five men grabbed him, stuffed him into a car and drove off. His family called the police to report a kidnapping. But...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW THE GAMBIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1a78bf6f-07bc-42a6-a036-71cce54fee2a.png"] No Time for Promises Gambian President Adama Barrow made a pledge when he ended the 22-year rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh in 2016. After winning a tense race, Barrow said he would lead a provisional government for three years, then call elections. Now...
Read full story →PAST AND FUTURE WORLD [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dce47e18-e5d0-45e9-b34c-579ae97d703b.png"] Unfinished Stories As 2019 comes to a close, and with it, a decade, we at DailyChatter are taking a look back at a few select issues and events – by no means exhaustive – that made headlines over the past decade and will...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW GUINEA-BISSAU [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9ee0d0dd-e1d8-43cb-8daa-69f39711d5c1.png"] Light and Shadow Voters in Guinea-Bissau have had enough. When they go to the polls to elect a new president in a runoff vote scheduled for Dec. 29, the incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz won’t be among their choices. Instead, they’ll be choosing between two...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW BURKINA FASO [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9cf613f3-3424-4635-a291-b21ae90883f8.png"] The New Fissure of Terror The families of American diplomats were ordered out of Burkina Faso recently. “There is no specific threat that prompted this decision, rather this reconfiguration of the US Embassy staffing profile will enable refocused operations to assist Burkina Faso...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW NAMIBIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fcfd160a-408d-4f0e-9086-d10b98310e57.png"] Something Fishy Going On What does an Icelandic fisherman have to do with Namibia’s presidential election? Plenty, it turns out. Namibians go to the polls Wednesday, and usually Namibian elections are predictable, explained African Arguments. The South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), a political party...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW GUINEA-BISSAU [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9ee0d0dd-e1d8-43cb-8daa-69f39711d5c1.png"] Who's In Charge? Guinea-Bissau is arguably a “narco state,” a country where drug money has corrupted every nook and cranny of the government, the economy and society. Police recently seized 1.8 tons of cocaine from smugglers, for example. It was the second time in six...
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