Chirp Chirp – 29 October 2020
Chirp Chirp – 29 October 2020 We can probably all use some good news right about now, so from Downunder: Australian scientists have discovered a new healthy coral reef 1.5 kms long and 500 meters high, developing & prospering, near the Great Barrier Reef. GO Earth. Helps to be an island. Taiwan has registered its […]
22SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: The UN’s World Food Program warned of food insecurity in Mozambique due to growing violence in the country’s north by militants linked to the Islamic State. AMERICAS: Canadian police searched an apartment linked to the person detained for sending a ricin-filled envelope to the White House and five other addresses in the […]
21SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: EU Foreign Ministers are reportedly set to agree to new sanctions on three firms from Turkey, Jordan and Kazakhstan, for breaching an arms embargo related to Libya. AMERICAS: Confidential documents submitted by global banks to the US government reportedly show banks moving allegedly illicit funds despite red flags about the origins of […]
20SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: The Libyan Center for Disease Control reported 796 additional COVID-19 cases, as the total confirmed cases in the country exceeded 27,000 AMERICAS: President Trump said that he will nominate a woman in the next week to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, foreshadowing a critical political battle that […]
15SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Human rights groups say Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s critics are being thrown in jail and denied bail. AMERICAS: Hurricane Sally continues to move closer to the US Gulf Coast, bringing heavy rains and surging water ahead of its expected landfall as a Category 2 hurricane. ASIA: An Indonesian patrol ship confronted a […]
06SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was evacuated to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment. AMERICAS: Colombia registered 8,394 new COVID-19 cases and 268 more deaths in the past 24 hours, increasing the country’s total to 658,456 cases and 21,156 fatalities. ASIA: The next Japanese prime minister could demand a snap […]
02SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan can be linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in neighboring Chad, just one week after it declared the continent free of wild polio. AMERICAS: The US announced they will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a […]
01SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Tunisia’s Parliament is set to vote on Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi’s proposed politically independent, technocratic cabinet. AMERICAS: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with a kidney stone and is set to undergo surgery to remove it. ASIA: Ethnic Mongolians in China’s north staged rare protests against government measures reducing the teaching of […]
31AUG20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: Sudan’s power-sharing government signed a peace agreement with the country’s five key rebel groups, taking a significant step towards ending the deep-rooted conflicts that raged under the country’s former leader Omar al-Bashir. AMERICAS: Firefighters made progress against two of the largest of dozens of lightning-sparked wildfires raging in the US state of […]
30AUG20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report
Key Storylines AFRICA: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) stressed the need for an inclusive return to the country’s political process. AMERICAS: The United States’ top intelligence official has told lawmakers it will largely stop holding in-person briefings on election security, signaling that it does not trust lawmakers to keep the information secret. […]
