May 3, 2016 NEED TO KNOW A Vital, Difficult Ally Idriss Deby, the newly re-elected president of Chad, is one ally the West cannot afford to lose. Surrounded by unstable national governments and under threat from hostile...
Read full story →May 2, 2016 NEED TO KNOW A Rocky Sea of Separation Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida was in China this weekend to meet his counterpart, Wang Yi, in the hopes of repairing a historically rocky relationship...
Read full story →April 29, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Bangladesh: Trolls and Heroes Take a look at your Facebook page. Maybe you made a snarky comment about welfare moms, tax-dodging politicians, or the National Rifle Association. Maybe you just...
Read full story →April 28, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Syrian Ceasefire All But Collapses The pictures are heartbreaking. During the past week, around 200 civilians have been killed in and around Aleppo, as a so-called ceasefire in Syria descended into a pitched battle for...
Read full story →April 27, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Peace for South Sudan? Warring factions in South Sudan stepped closer to a lasting peace than anytime in the past two and a half years on Tuesday afternoon, when a powerful rebel...
Read full story →April 26, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Syria: Saving the Ceasefire or Assad? Eight weeks into a truce that was supposed to allow negotiators to hammer out a peace deal, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have stepped...
Read full story →April 25, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Obama Pivots Back Known for his agility on the basketball court, US President Barack Obama has some fancy footwork on the agenda Monday. He’s about to “pivot” back to Europe. Meeting...
Read full story →April 22, 2016 NEED TO KNOW China’s Port for Pakistan Containing China may not be such a good idea everywhere. Neither Washington nor any of its allies in Asia will cop to the containment strategy. But the...
Read full story →April 21, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Forgotten War It's one of the deadliest conflicts in the world, and yet it's overlooked. Even the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of Yemen's civil war on March 26 passed without notice....
Read full story →April 20, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Talking, Not Listening The ceasefire in the Syrian civil war lasted for around six weeks – if one is being generous with the term “ceasefire.” Both sides were complaining about breaches...
Read full story →April 19, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Brazil's Enduring Battle For Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, the vote this weekend in Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against her is not the beginning of the end. It’s the end...
Read full story →April 18, 2016 NEED TO KNOW The Responsibility of Welcome When Pope Francis arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos this weekend, he had a message for the thousands of refugees stuck there. You are not alone. He...
Read full story →April 15, 2016 NEED TO KNOW China: Slow Growth Spurs Crackdown There’s a simple explanation for China’s abrupt turnabout on freedom of expression and new aggression when it comes to foreign policy. It’s the economy –...
Read full story →April 14, 2016 NEED TO KNOW In Nigeria, a Tale of Two Normals Two years ago today, Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, a town in northeastern Nigeria. Fifty-seven of the girls managed to escape...
Read full story →April 13, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Germans and a Thin-Skinned Dictator President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s critics say he has undermined Turkey’s democracy since he rose to power 13 years ago. He has cracked down on civil society,...
Read full story →April 12, 2016 NEED TO KNOW A Reversal of Fortunes A few years ago, Brazil was looking forward to the 2014 World Cup and the Summer Olympics this year. It was the first country in the...
Read full story →April 11, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Crumbling from Within Ukraine became the victim in a war two years ago that made clear Moscow’s new aggressiveness outside its borders. Now, the country is falling apart. After Russia annexed the...
Read full story →April 8, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Vietnam: No Bold Reforms For New PM Sometimes you need a steady hand on the tiller. Or that’s what Vietnam’s politburo is thinking. With the confirmation of Nguyen Xuan Phuc as...
Read full story →April 7, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Tragedy, Overlooked South Sudan deserves better. The plight of the world’s newest country – South Sudan gained independence in 2011 – is easy to overlook amid the fallout from the Panama...
Read full story →April 6, 2016 NEED TO KNOW Panama Papers: One Down… And so it begins. It was only a matter of time before a leader fell due to the revelations contained in the 11.5 million documents leaked from...
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