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Malawi
Vice President Dies in Plane Crash
Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima has been killed in a plane crash along with nine other passengers, including his wife. There were no survivors on board after the aircraft went down in northern Malawi’s Chikangawa forest. The plane, also carrying former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, had taken off from the nation’s capital Lilongwe and was headed to Mzuzu to attend the funeral of the country’s former attorney general. Unable to land at their destination about 200 miles north due to low visibility, the pilot was advised to return to Lilongwe when the plane dropped off radar. After a day-long search effort involving drones and at least 200 soldiers, the wreckage of the small military plane was found in the mountainous region outside of Mzuzu.
This map depicts where the plane carrying Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine others crashed in the Chikangawa forest en route to Mzuzu from the country’s capital, Lilongwe. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Finland-Russia
Higher Russian Border Security
Finland is increasing the security along its 833-mile (1,340 km) border with neighboring Russia. The Finnish government closed all official border crossings with Russia late last year, but it is preparing for a potential surge of asylum seekers attempting to cross the heavily forested border. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine critically damaged relations with the European Union (EU), Russia and neighboring ally Belarus were funneling migrants from Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to their western borders – ostensibly to destabilize the EU and the NATO military alliance. Besides increased regular border guards and enhanced electronic monitoring of the border, Finland is preparing legislation to authorize the border guards to call on reservists, track migrants’ mobile phone signals, send migrants to detention centers, and even return migrants to Russia without accepting asylum applications.
This map depicts the eight official border crossing points between Finland and Russia which Finland officially closed last year. Finland is preparing further border-monitoring measures and legislation to authorize sending migrants back to Russia without accepting asylum applications Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Reuters
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Space
Water Frost on Mars’ Volcanoes
An international group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Bern have published an article in Nature Geoscience revealing water frost can be found near the peaks of volcanoes on Mars. Finding water on Mars means there may be sufficient accessible quantities of this important resource for eventual human habitation. The Tharsis volcano chain is surrounded by significant water ice clouds that create a thin but expansive film of frost on the planet’s surface. The frost was first revealed in images captured by the Bernese Mars camera called CaSSIS, which has captured data of other important breakthroughs about the atmosphere and surface of Mars and was confirmed by other probes orbiting the planet.
This map depicts the influence of Olympus Mons’ topography on its local climate, providing evidence for water frost on Mars. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Goa, a state in southwestern India, was a possession of which country from 1510 to 1961?
A: Portugal
Goa, located on the west coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1510 to 1961. The small coastal area was an important trade hub for the Eastern spice trade and the capital of the entire Portuguese Empire east of the Cape of Good Hope for 450 years. The Viceroy of Portuguese India resided at Goa, and ships from the port sailed across the empire from East Africa to Japan bringing in horses, spices, enslaved people, and other goods which could then be traded in other Asian ports or sent back to Lisbon. The city, along with the rest of the empire, went into decline following attacks by the Dutch and the English which severely restricted Portuguese trade and revenues.
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Q: The largest overland wildlife migration occurs between what two African countries?
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