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. […]
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 […]
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 […]