28OCT20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report

Key Storylines AFRICA: Voting officially started in Tanzania’s presidential election and is already marred by deadly violence and opposition accusations of manipulation. AMERICAS: Tropical Storm Zeta is set to make landfall upon the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane. ASIA: The Australian city of Melbourne, the country’s second-largest, emerged from a 111-day long coronavirus lockdown. […]

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 […]

13SEP20 Global Overnight Overwatch Report

Key Storylines AFRICA: The leader of the Mali military junta government, Colonel Assimi Goita, vowed to establish an 18-month transition government, at the close of talks on returning the country to civilian rule following last month’s coup. AMERICAS: Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were shot multiple times, apparently in an ambush, while in their […]

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 […]

Chirp Chirp – 02 September 2020

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Chirp Chirp – 02 September 2020 Trade matters, because jobs matter. Even with our strongest allies trade matters. As do mutually beneficial safeguards. One almost wonders if the announcement of a COVID19 vaccine by Moscow was really a crude attempt at deception and deflection away from the Navalny poisoning.

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 […]