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United States
University Anti-War Protests Grow
University protests over Israel’s war in Gaza have spread following the arrest of more than 100 Pro-Palestinian protestors at Columbia University last Thursday. Thirty-four protestors were arrested at the University of Texas in Austin on Wednesday after University and state officials called in the police and state troopers to prevent a student walkout and occupation of the campus. Other institutions including the University of Southern California, Emory, and Yale saw similar student arrests. Protesting students have called for universities to halt the endowment investment in companies involved in Israel’s war in Gaza, or for universities to sever ties with Israel all together. Some Pro-Israel and Jewish groups have said protests have included antisemitic harassment, particularly those on the campuses of NYU and Columbia.
This map depicts the location of notable student protests since the arrest of more than 100 students at Columbia University on Thursday. Click on the map to learn more.
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Kenya
Flooding Displaces Thousands
Weeks of heavy rains have led to flooding throughout East Africa, leading to dozens of deaths and tens of thousands of people displaced. In Kenya, where both the Nairobi River and the Athi River have burst their banks, the Kenya Red Cross Society has reported 35 deaths and over 40,000 people displaced since March. In Burundi, the number of displaced is almost 100,000, while deaths in Tanzania have reached 58. The increase in rain has been blamed on the coincidence of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and the recent El Niño. The IOD is sometimes called the “Indian Niño” and by itself brings heavier rain to the region, but the effects in East Africa become extreme when the two phenomena take place at the same time.
This map depicts the countries in East Africa affected by flooding fed by extreme rainfall over the recent weeks. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Sky News
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World
Global Report on Food Crises
According to the Global Report on Food Crises, more than one in five people in 59 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2023. Acute food insecurity is hunger so severe it poses an immediate threat to people’s livelihoods and lives. The report – a joint initiative involving the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – found food crises escalated alarmingly in 2023, citing particular concerns over Gaza and Sudan. In Gaza, people cannot meet even the most basic food needs and there is reasonable evidence of all three famine thresholds – food insecurity, malnutrition, and mortality. In Sudan, 20.3 million people, or 42 percent of the population, struggled to find enough to eat last year. This represents the highest number of people in the world facing “emergency” levels of food insecurity in the last year. The report noted the importance of immediate humanitarian assistance and timely provision of agricultural inputs. Around 36 million people in 39 countries face emergency levels of acute food insecurity, over a third of them in Sudan and Afghanistan.
This map depicts the number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 59 countries/territories in 2023. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What US territory’s unofficial motto is “Where America’s Day Begins”?
A: Guam
Guam is a United States territory in the Western Pacific. It is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the largest island in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania which consists of about 2,000 small islands. The island is about 1,500 miles (2,500 kilometers) south of Tokyo and roughly equidistant from North Korea and Australia. Indigenous Guamanians are the Chamorro, who are related to the Austronesian peoples of the Malay Archipelago, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Polynesia. It is where “America’s Day Begins,” although technically, the United States’ Day starts much farther west on a tiny speck of land next to the International Date Line. This speck of land, called Wake Island, is a military base where the sign on the airstrip once read “Where America’s Day REALLY begins.”
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Q: What two countries are part of the mineral-rich Copperbelt of Central Africa?
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