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May 31, 2021

Unrecognized, Undaunted

NEED TO KNOW SOMALILAND [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3acb250d-c8fb-ab06-e014-2db36946b098.png"] Unrecognized, Undaunted Somaliland declared independence from Somalia 30 years ago as the latter was collapsing. Today, the self-declared sovereign Republic of Somaliland is extremely stable – an outlier in the Horn of Africa – in part because its government accommodates both indigenous Somali...

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May 25, 2021

Worry and Leisure

NEED TO KNOW SEYCHELLES [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/29c9417e-612e-a456-84c7-58c01b8dffdf.png"] Worry and Leisure Americans Shivani Pathak and Bo Sutton were both vaccinated when they went to the Seychelles for a vacation. But, as the Denver Post reported, the married couple recently had to go into quarantine after they tested positive for the virus. Their...

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May 06, 2021

Eviction Notice

NEED TO KNOW KENYA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/042c2340-7f46-4be6-b8d2-b99757193837.png"] Eviction Notice Kenya intends to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps that together host more than 430,000 refugees mostly from war-torn Somalia and South Sudan. They are havens for terrorism, it says. Setting a June 30, 2022 deadline, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told the...

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April 26, 2021

After the King

NEED TO KNOW CHAD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b08925fb-4623-40c3-9563-de5bd3009fa5.png"] After the King President Idriss Deby recently won reelection to a sixth term to continue his grip on power in Chad, which began more than 30 years ago when he seized control in an armed uprising. A day later, rebels killed him. "Faithful to the...

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April 21, 2021

Denier-In-Chief

NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7819ef2-af28-4877-8ca5-9689142b709a.png"] Denier-In-Chief The president of Tanzania, John Magufuli, denied that Covid-19 was real. The virus likely proved him wrong. It may have claimed his life on March 17. As CNN explained, the late 61-year-old president officially died from heart failure, which officialdom maintains he had been...

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April 19, 2021

Hunger Games

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/bf55b5d2-7db8-404a-b87b-c88a42597d29.png"] Hunger Games Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago for his hand in bringing a border war with neighboring Eritrea to an end. Now Abiy’s military crackdown on Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia where rebels are seeking...

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April 16, 2021

Domino Theory

NEED TO KNOW MOZAMBIQUE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/145ea551-3c3e-4af3-915f-9d349351d3b2.png"] Domino Theory People used stones and bedsheets to write “Help” and “SOS” on the ground in a desperate attempt to gain the attention of an aircraft flying over Palma during an Islamic State attack on the city. As government forces fled after the surprise...

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April 13, 2021

When the Giants Come Calling

NEED TO KNOW CAPE VERDE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8420c90a-021d-4851-a9cc-4c15d49f1083.png"] When the Giants Come Calling To Venezuela, Alex Saab is a diplomat. To the US, he is a fraudster with close ties to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. To Cape Verde, he’s a legal dilemma. That diverse viewpoint was highlighted recently when the West...

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April 08, 2021

Paris’ Man

NEED TO KNOW CHAD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b08925fb-4623-40c3-9563-de5bd3009fa5.png"] Paris’ Man When Chadian President Idriss Deby accepted the nomination for a sixth term in office from the ruling Patriotic Salvation Movement in February, he struck a pose of magnanimity. “The people’s confidence has a sacred value for me,” said Deby, 68, according...

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April 02, 2021

Location, Location

NEED TO KNOW DJIBOUTI [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/34a9512f-f04f-4b88-af31-1d97b2b3d59a.png"] Location, Location Tiny Djibouti is one of the few countries that hosts both Chinese as well as American, French and Japanese military facilities. The predominately Muslim country has also signed a deal with Saudi Arabia for a base. That unique status stems from its...

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March 31, 2021

Cotton and the King

NEED TO KNOW BENIN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2f9461ee-c4e6-4b8e-a1ae-3fd929fd2dfa.png"] Cotton and the King Benin had been known as a bastion of democracy in West Africa. But in 2019, election officials banned political opposition parties from parliamentary elections, sparking protests and a brutal crackdown on demonstrators, journalists and dissidents that Amnesty International at the...

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March 18, 2021

To Whom Go The Spoils

NEED TO KNOW SENEGAL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3676cf10-2f23-4295-b085-c86147830390.png"] To Whom Go The Spoils Security forces killed at least five men in Senegal recently. Demonstrators were protesting the arrest of Ousmane Sonko, a politician charged with raping a masseuse as well as disturbing public order, explained Al Jazeera. The charges, the demonstrators argued,...

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March 16, 2021

The Emperor’s Old Clothes

NEED TO KNOW REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9976eb8a-e303-45f2-8b62-5fba423e2b40.png"] The Emperor's Old Clothes President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, sometimes called Congo-Brazzaville to distinguish it from the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, recently purchased an arsenal of weapons from Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic. The president’s critics fear...

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March 12, 2021

Suffer the Children

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6c258edc-b123-4d47-98e3-f42e226ea64f.png"] Suffer the Children Bandits recently released 279 Nigerian girls kidnapped recently from their school in Zamfara, a state in the country’s northwest. The kidnappers had forced the girls to march in the forest, beating them and threatening to shoot them if they stopped,...

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March 10, 2021

Muscle Memory

NEED TO KNOW GUINEA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/963d6fc3-90db-4090-ad9a-da882d906f12.png"] Muscle Memory Officials in Guinea are quickly vaccinating citizens to stop a dangerous virus from killing people. Covid-19 isn’t the big problem in the small, poor West African nation, however. It’s a potentially far deadlier threat – Ebola. “Our collective, quick action is crucial...

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February 23, 2021

Division, Disease and Doubts

NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/5516b8d6-0af4-46a7-8454-a3339ff1009f.png"] Division, Disease and Doubts South Africa was going to launch a massive campaign to inject its citizens with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. But researchers discovered that the vaccine wouldn’t prevent the spread of the country’s variant of the coronavirus. So, as the Associated...

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February 08, 2021

Making Peace, Making War

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/bf55b5d2-7db8-404a-b87b-c88a42597d29.png"] Making Peace, Making War Asmelash Woldeselassie survived a bombing that cost him his sight during a civil war in his native Ethiopia in the 1970s. Two decades later, he lived through an air attack in a war against Eritrea that resulted in the...

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February 02, 2021

Of Bullies and Pulpits

NEED TO KNOW UGANDA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/eae01c28-7782-4a11-9e2b-886217499c6a.png"] Of Bullies and Pulpits Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, 76, won reelection to a sixth term in January, preserving an administration that has ruled the East African country since 1986. In celebrating his victory, he declared that the vote would probably go down as...

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January 06, 2021

Against All Odds

NEED TO KNOW UGANDA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/eae01c28-7782-4a11-9e2b-886217499c6a.png"] Against All Odds Ugandan presidential candidate Bob Wine, a reggae star-cum-opposition leader, recently accused the driver of a military police truck of deliberately running over and killing Wine’s security guard. It wouldn’t be the first time Wine has been targeted since he decided to...

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December 30, 2020

A War on Children

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6c258edc-b123-4d47-98e3-f42e226ea64f.png"] A War on Children Chibok became a black mark on Nigeria’s history. That’s where Boko Haram fighters kidnapped almost 300 schoolgirls in 2014, a particularly notorious incident in the early years of the Islamic State-affiliated group running rampant in northeastern Nigeria. The school...

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