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Haiti
UN Sends Peacekeepers
The United Nations Security Countil has voted to send a Kenya-led force to the nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince, in response to years of gang-led violence. Thirteen Security Council members voted in support of the measure drafted by the United States and Ecuador, with China and Russia abstaining. The mission, which is authorized for one year, comes after a 2004 effort to stabilize the country was hampered by a sexual abuse scandal and the outbreak of cholera. Kenya has emerged to lead this force due to its commitment to providing 1,000 security personnel. The agreement on the mission comes one year after Haiti’s prime minister and 18 other government officials requested an armed force to re-implement security to permit the country’s long-delayed elections.
This map depicts the territories controlled by gangs and their alliances across the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Barron’s
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Thailand
Teenage Mall Shooter in Custody
Two people are dead and a fourteen-year-old boy is in police custody following a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. While multiple reports came out stating three people had been killed, authorities have corrected that to two. Another four people were injured. Siam Paragon is Thailand’s most popular and famous shopping mall, attracting both locals and international tourists. The suspect currently in custody surrendered himself to police, but his motive and how he obtained a handgun remain unknown.
This map depicts the location of the Siam Paragon luxury shopping mall inthe center of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, where a shooting earlier today left two people dead and a teenage suspect under arrest. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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United States
Kidnapped Child Found
Nine-year-old Charlotte Sena was rescued by the police on Monday two days after being abducted from a park in upstate New York. Sena disappeared after separating from friends to take one more bike ride by herself at Moreau Lake State Park. She was found in good health hidden in a cupboard in a trailer behind the suspect’s mother’s home. Authorities deduced her location after fingerprints found on a ransom note left in her parents’ mailbox were matched to those from a prior arrest. The suspect, 47-year-old Craig Nelson Ross Jr., is now in police custody after suffering minor injuries while resisting arrest.
This map depicts the location where Charlotte Sena was abducted on Saturday. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What seafaring culture and distinct ethnic group arose from a shipwreck and British-imposed exile from St. Vincent to Roatán Island?
A: Garifuna
The Garifuna in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are descended from an Afro-indigenous population from the Caribbean Island of St Vincent. The Garifuna are the descendants of the African survivors of human cargo ships that were wrecked off the island of St Vincent around 1675. These West Africans, along with the steady stream of maroons (escaped slaves) from other Caribbean islands found refuge and started families with the indigenous Kalinago (Carib) population. An Afro-indigenous culture developed that existed independently of the region’s colonial forced labor plantation system. They created a formidable fighting force that resisted European colonizing efforts in the region for over a century, forcing both the British and French to recognize St Vincent as one of several ‘Neutral Islands.’ Conflict between the British and the Black Caribs, led by defiant Chief Joseph Chatoyer (Satuye) continued until 1796, when improved British armaments forced them to accept permanent exile as prisoners of war. In April 1797, over 5,000 ‘Black Caribs’ (Garifuna) were transported on British ships and abandoned on the deserted Honduran Bay Island of Roatan.
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Q: The deepest known blue hole (marine sinkhole) in the world is known by local fisherman as the “Eye” of what sea?
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