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This edition's featured story and table of the week focus on Nigeria's #EndSARS movement while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a list of upcoming events, and more.

This edition's featured story and table of the week focus on current events in Cameroon while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a list of upcoming events, and more.

The proliferation of armed groups and simmering conflicts in several countries of the Maghreb - Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and Libya - have made the region a central theater for U.S. counterterror efforts, which have included expanded and controversial U.S. military operations. The U.S. has substantially increased its security sector assistance to the region, averaging $176 million per year between FY2017-19.

This edition's featured story and table of the week focuses on Africa's place in climate change as well as the effects of climate change in the Sahel while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a graphic demonstrating civilian displacement in Nigeria, a list of upcoming events, and more.

This edition's featured story focuses on the U.S.'s expanding military operations in Africa under AFRICOM and its table of the week highlights the U.S.'s military footprint in Africa while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a list of upcoming events, and more.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been the site of multiple wars throughout this century. Current conflicts include the civil war in Syria, with outside intervention by Russia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United States (U.S.); the conflict in Libya, with intervention by Russia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Egypt, and Turkey; the Saudi-led war in Yemen; Egypt’s counterterror operations in the Northern Sinai; and a campaign of strikes and counter-strikes involving the U.S., Iran, and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq that has the potential to spiral into a larger conflict. The vast bulk of the weapons used in these wars are supplied by outside powers. This report document stop arms suppliers and recipients in the region between 2015 and 2019, based on data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

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This edition's featured story focuses on the plight of African migrant workers and refugees while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a graphic demonstrating migrant deaths globally, a list of upcoming events, and more.

The Pentagon has just announced a $13.3 billion contract to Northrop Grumman for the development of a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), known formally as the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD). The Department is poised to spend $85 to $150 billion over the next decade and beyond on this new generation of ICBMs. New ICBMs are both unnecessary and dangerous. In a crisis, the president has only a matter of minutes to decide whether to launch them, significantly increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear war. The best outcome would be to stop the development of the new ICBM and eliminate current long-range nuclear missiles from the U.S. arsenal.

This edition's featured story and table of the week focuses on upcoming African elections while the monitor as a whole presents an aggregation of current continent wide stories, a list of upcoming events, and more.