The rough fringes:
The governments of Mali and Algeria are teaming up to smush a local Al Qaeda spinoff in the western Sahara. Of course, Algeria has been sponsoring Polisario in the Western Sahara for decades, but *that’s* the terrorists that they like.
The endless ethnic nationalist guerilla war against the central Burmese government goes on, as noted in this story about the Kachins.
Oil wealth, Chinese connections and the changes in Equatorial Guinea.
Archie Andrews goes to India; Bollywood film at 11. I wanna see how Sugar, Sugar translates into Hindi! Rang Rang Mere…catchy title.