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November 22, 2019

Chipping Away

NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fb98f556-a59e-4b27-aa3b-2955230a318d.png"] Chipping Away Local elections on Nov. 24 are quickly becoming a test of whether Tanzania can become a real democracy or not. As African Arguments explained, the long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi political party stands accused of election fraud, suppression of political dissent, media control...

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November 20, 2019

Darling Tyrant

NEED TO KNOW RWANDA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ffde1c02-96b3-4eb7-9f4c-c0ae3aec4398.png"] Darling Tyrant Rwandan President Paul Kagame, in office for almost 20 years, delivered a blunt statement to his enemies during a recent swearing-in ceremony for cabinet members and military brass. "I want to warn some people among us who hide behind different things. They...

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November 06, 2019

No Good Deed…

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ebcf7d57-2cd4-4a70-a30c-6c92b9a1b48a.png"] No Good Deed… Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize recently for his efforts to end a 20-year-long war with neighboring Eritrea. But less than two weeks after the announcement, protesters were burning the 43-year-old politician’s book in demonstrations in support...

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October 24, 2019

Growing Pains

NEED TO KNOW BOTSWANA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/15cba0b9-3d17-4f25-b35e-21cc9789d865.png"] Growing Pains Botswana has long been viewed as one of the most stable democracies in Africa. That view is now being put to the test. For the first time since the southern African country gained independence 53 years ago, the Botswana Democratic Party could lose...

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October 15, 2019

Ruling Over Nothing

NEED TO KNOW MOZAMBIQUE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/fb8fea04-ee68-464c-bb00-be636cb6a3c9.png"] Ruling Over Nothing Police officers allegedly killed an election observer in Mozambique a week before the presidential vote on Oct. 15. Reported by Human Rights Watch, the incident was just one flare-up of recent violence in the southeastern African country. The elections were supposed...

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September 17, 2019

Dancehall Dreams

NEED TO KNOW ZIMBABWE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b64e0c19-eefc-4daa-92c7-139646417589.png"] Dancehall Dreams Winky D is a hero among some in Zimbabwe. The popular singer performs Zimdancehall music, a reggae-descended genre that gives voice to the “veiled discontent” and “disillusionment” that’s widespread in the southern African country, wrote the New York Times. The target of Winky...

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September 10, 2019

Scourge Act II

NEED TO KNOW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1d45ef22-7937-40b7-9d50-cd2eef360d5f.png"] Scourge Act II The Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed more than 11,300 people between 2014 and 2016. As of late August, more than 2,000 people have perished in the yearlong outbreak of the fatal virus in the Democratic Republic...

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September 03, 2019

We Don’t Need No Education

NEED TO KNOW ERITREA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/aa5ffd4b-5322-485b-84c2-7800b19541d2.png"] We Don't Need No Education Every Eritrean high school student spends the 12th grade at the Warsai Yikealo Secondary School and Vocational Training Center near the border with Sudan. The students quickly realize that reading and arithmetic are not uppermost in their masters’ minds. “From...

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August 27, 2019

Accounting

NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7ff13e19-e031-4ed8-b29a-3f9f5eaaae60.png"] Accounting The signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and protesters in August was arguably the most positive international development of the year. In April, as anti-government protests grew over complaints of corruption and economic stagnation, Sudan’s military ousted former dictator Omar...

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August 19, 2019

A History of Taking

Good morning, today is Monday August 19th, 2019, and this is your “World In 2 Minutes” from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e87ee4a1-acc3-47d4-ab24-99620c359db4.png"] A History of Taking Demonstrators sporting socialist slogans took to the streets of South Africa last month. “Yes to land expropriation without compensation!” read one...

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August 15, 2019

A Poor and Hungry Battlefield

NEED TO KNOW NIGER [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dac255cb-f90a-4448-a883-d3ac2d9b7103.png"] On the Edge In 2017, jihadist militants ambushed a unit of American special forces in Niger. The Pentagon recently issued a report blaming junior officers for the incident that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers, the New York Times wrote. Since then, however,...

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August 07, 2019

Waiting for Godot

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/78f1d673-5d4f-4e76-98ae-7d0350e258ac.png"] Waiting for Godot Armed men on motorbikes attacked a funeral procession in northeastern Nigeria recently, killing at least 65 people. Dozens are still missing. The attack, blamed on the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, was thought to be a reprisal in a tit-for-tat conflict...

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July 29, 2019

A Golden Union

NEED TO KNOW AFRICA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/f7689c12-2326-4a2a-a072-842db5132f55.png"] A Golden Union Africa’s 1.3 billion people live and work in a $3.4 trillion economy, compared with China’s 1.4 billion people and $13.6 trillion 2018 gross domestic product. That $3.4 trillion is only a portion of the continent’s potential, however. Intra-regional trade accounted for only...

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July 22, 2019

A Killer Loose

NEED TO KNOW UGANDA & CONGO [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/17fd0d0f-f16e-4569-a41d-29ee862e14ae.png"] A Killer Loose At Ihandiro primary school in western Uganda, teachers have been stressing a different lesson from reading and math: Wash your hands. That's because of a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus in the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo that...

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July 19, 2019

Radio Free Sudan

NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7ff13e19-e031-4ed8-b29a-3f9f5eaaae60.png"] Radio Free Sudan Capital FM is going silent in Khartoum. The pop music radio station was part of a cultural revolution in Sudan this spring. "It was just so beautiful, and we were just so proud that we're soulful," Ahmad Hikmat, the station’s content director,...

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July 12, 2019

Money, Money, Money

NEED TO KNOW ZIMBABWE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b64e0c19-eefc-4daa-92c7-139646417589.png"] Money, Money, Money Zimbabwean businesses are operating at night when they’re more likely to have electricity. Over the past week, there were blackouts that lasted at least two days. Officials blame low water levels for hydropower plants, antiquated coal-fired plants and decades of corruption...

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