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December 24, 2020

A Question of Lives

NEED TO KNOW NIGER [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/770c49e5-a303-44c1-86fc-05e51df3933a.png"] A Question of Lives Boko Haram militants affiliated with the Islamic State killed 28 people and burned 800 homes in an attack in southern Niger recently. The terrorists shot 10 people and immolated 14 victims in the village of Toumour, Reuters reported. Another four...

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December 22, 2020

A Democratic Frontier

NEED TO KNOW CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7e5325a-3ac2-4df5-8925-90bdfbdaf0d9.png"] A Democratic Frontier Violent groups control much of the Central African Republic. Around a quarter of the population is either displaced or living in Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo or its neighbor, the Republic of the Congo. A peace...

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December 08, 2020

Tired – and Angry

NEED TO KNOW LIBERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/9eb32998-6471-45a3-a560-2a676df24771.png"] Tired – and Angry Liberian President George Oppong Weah is hoping to join the ranks of Ivory Coast’s Alassane Ouattara, Guinea’s Alpha Condé and other African leaders who have sidestepped their country’s laws to win a controversial third term in office. On Dec. 8,...

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December 02, 2020

A Long Shadow

NEED TO KNOW GHANA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7e0e6e88-9163-4694-b6cb-60313006b676.png"] A Long Shadow Jerry Rawlings brought military coups, authoritarianism and, ironically, democracy to Ghana. He recently died at the age of 73, bringing an end to a chapter of African history that stretched to the post-colonial period and the continent’s early experiences with...

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November 26, 2020

No Quarter

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/bf55b5d2-7db8-404a-b87b-c88a42597d29.png"] No Quarter Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won a Nobel Peace Prize last year for resolving a 20-year conflict with neighboring Eritrea, a nation that split from Ethiopia after a bloody war for independence that began in the late 1990s. The son of a...

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November 19, 2020

The Speak-Up Generation

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/6c258edc-b123-4d47-98e3-f42e226ea64f.png"] The Speak-Up Generation Nigerian activist Aisha Yesufu helped establish the Bring Back Our Girls movement to push for progress in helping the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted in the northeastern town of Chibok six years ago. Now she’s at the forefront of a movement against...

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November 18, 2020

In the Heart of the Sahel, Desperation

NEED TO KNOW BURKINA FASO [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0c0197a8-9ef4-4935-9656-24fbfbb32b2e.png"] In the Heart of the Sahel, Desperation A firefight in northern Burkina Faso’s troubled Sahel region claimed 16 lives recently – seven army soldiers as well as nine terrorists, reported Xinhua. The attack came a few days after a terrorist threw a...

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November 05, 2020

Making Friends

NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/224b0e8f-5be6-4e44-b799-a1b865717c98.png"] Making Friends Sudan and Israel were technically at war for decades. Recently, however, the East African country became the third nation this year after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize relations with the Jewish state. Former Israeli ambassador to South Sudan, Haim...

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October 26, 2020

To the Tune of Politics

NEED TO KNOW TANZANIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/c7819ef2-af28-4877-8ca5-9689142b709a.png"] To the Tune of Politics Music has been politicized in Tanzania, where presidential and parliamentary candidates have been on the campaign trail ahead of general elections on Oct. 28. The ruling Party of the Revolution launched incumbent President John Pombe Magufuli's campaign in August...

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October 19, 2020

Past as Prologue

NEED TO KNOW AFRICA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d9c9459-9302-4fc1-a060-e8206615789c.png"] Past as Prologue Many experts predicted another public health disaster in Africa due to the coronavirus pandemic. They were wrong. Impoverished, lacking infrastructure and good governance systems, unprepared for climate change and already struggling against other diseases, African countries were supposed to be especially vulnerable...

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October 16, 2020

The Poisons of Power

NEED TO KNOW GUINEA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/963d6fc3-90db-4090-ad9a-da882d906f12.png"] The Poisons of Power Once a persecuted opposition hero, Alpha Conde is the latest aging African leader stoking controversy by extending his term in office and flouting, if not the letter, then at least the spirit of the law. In 2010, Conde was the...

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August 31, 2020

Oil and Water

NEED TO KNOW MAURITIUS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/02f1626a-7dbd-471b-9d90-d7085cc67146.png"] Oil and Water The government of Mauritius recently ordered the scuttling of the front section of the MV Wakashio, a Japanese oil tanker that ran aground on the string of islands in the Indian Ocean. The back section is still stuck in the...

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August 21, 2020

Dam Politics

NEED TO KNOW ETHIOPIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/bf55b5d2-7db8-404a-b87b-c88a42597d29.png"] Dam Politics Scholars of geopolitics have long predicted that water would replace oil as the world’s most precious resource, becoming a new bone of contention that might fuel the so-called water wars. Now, tensions over water are about to bubble over along the Nile...

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August 04, 2020

No Easy Fix

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,717,568 (+1.06%) Brazil: 2,750,318 (+0.61%) India: 1,855,745 (+2.89%) Russia: 854,641 (+0.63%) South Africa: 516,862 (+1.05%) Mexico: 443,813 (+1.09%) Peru:...

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July 27, 2020

Prohibition Redux

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 4,234,140 (+1.33%) Brazil: 2,419,091 (+1.03%) India: 1,435,616 (+3.61%) Russia: 811,073 (0.00%)** South Africa: 445,433 (+2.59%) Mexico: 390,516 (+1.42%) Peru:...

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July 22, 2020

What Color is Your Revolution?

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,902,135 (+1.86%) Brazil: 2,159,654 (+1.94%) India: 1,193,078 (+3.27%) Russia: 787,846 (+1.50%) South Africa: 381,798 (+2.19%) Peru: 362,087 (+2.40%) Mexico:...

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July 15, 2020

Delicate, and Combustible

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,431,574 (+1.99%) Brazil: 1,926,824 (+2.22%) India: 936,181 (+3.25%) Russia: 738,787 (0.00%)** Peru: 333,867 (+1.13%) Chile: 319,493 (+0.58%) Mexico: 311,486...

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July 13, 2020

They Miss Us Too

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 3,304,942 (+1.76%) Brazil: 1,864,681 (+1.35%) India: 878,254 (+3.38%) Russia: 726,036 (0.00%)** Peru: 326,326 (+1.12%) Chile: 315,041 (+0.97%) Mexico: 299,750...

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June 22, 2020

Having Their Say

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 2,280,969 (+1.15%) Brazil: 1,083,341 (+4.88%) Russia: 591,465 (+1.30%) India: 425,282 (+3.61%) UK: 305,803 (+0.40%) Peru: 251,338 (0.00%)** Spain: 246,272...

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June 16, 2020

A Perfect Storm

COVID-19 Global Update More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest numbers worldwide as of 4 a.m. ET*: US: 2,114,026 (+0.95%) Brazil: 888,271 (+2.38%) Russia: 544,725 (+3.12%) India: 343,091 (+3.21%) UK: 298,315 (+0.33%) Spain: 244,109 (+0.07%) Italy: 237,290...

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