19JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Tigrayan rebels have established a team to negotiate with government leaders after nearly 20 months of war in northern Ethiopia. AMERICAS: Ecuadorian officials said a riot in a prison left at least 13 inmates dead, more than two months after a clash between rival gangs left 44 dead in the same lockup. […]
18JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: The chief of Israel’s armed forces will visit Morocco in the highest-level public engagement between the countries. AMERICAS: Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of former Trump presidential adviser Steve Bannon. ASIA: South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin began a meeting in Tokyo with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi, […]
13JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: South African police arrested three people following the mysterious deaths last month of 21 young people in East London. AMERICAS: Foreign Minister Carlos França said Brazil will buy as much diesel fuel as possible from Russia following a deal with Moscow. ASIA: The US Navy sailed the guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold past […]
12JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Angola’s Attorney General Helder Pitta Gros says a postmortem examination into the death of former President José Eduardo dos Santos has ruled out poisoning. AMERICAS: US President Joe Biden is preparing to meet with his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House to discuss immigration, trade policy, and energy. […]
11JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: A Barcelona court authorized an autopsy on former Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santo who died in the city on Friday after his family alleged a conspiracy to kill him. AMERICAS: US President Joe Biden will meet his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday to discuss ways to stem migrant […]
07JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: M23 rebels said talks between Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Félix Tshisekedi will not stop the fighting in the east. AMERICAS: The Biden administration said it will spend nearly $1 billion to upgrade airports across the United States. ASIA: Two drug traffickers have been hanged in Singapore, bringing the […]
06JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Uganda’s cabinet approved the adoption of Swahili as an official language. AMERICAS: Canada will throw out 13.6m doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine because it could not find any takers for it either at home or abroad. ASIA: Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss […]
05JUL22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi will meet with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Angola amid rising tensions between the two neighboring countries. AMERICAS: Chile’s constitutional assembly handed over the final text of a proposed new constitution to President Gabriel Boric finalizing a year-long process. ASIA: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will fly […]
30JUN22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Sudanese security forces were heavily deployed and internet services cut in Khartoum ahead of pro-democracy protests. AMERICAS: A new state of emergency was called as indigenous protesters marched on Quito to call for a return to negotiations with the Ecuadorian government. ASIA: Chinese president Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong ahead of […]
29JUN22 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Ethiopia announced the appointment of a seven-member negotiating team to “peacefully resolve” the conflict in the northern part of the country. AMERICAS: US President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will meet on July 12 at the White House where the two leaders are expected to discuss food security, […]
