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World
COVID-19 Housing Protections
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought uncertainty and instability across almost all sectors of global society. In order to safeguard public health, shut down measures have led to significant economic contraction, which in turn has led to unprecedented widespread unemployment and social disruption. This map by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) is an interactive tool that tracks housing protection legislation and housing justice campaigns around the world in the wake of COVID-19. It also tracks policies that have expired or lapsed as state-of-emergencies are lifted. Many nations with large urban areas have passed at least some tenant protections during the crisis but many of these protections are now expired, leaving tenants vulnerable to eviction. The AEMP is a collective effort supported by groups of people all over the world who are contributing updates about tenant protections or housing justice actions in their region.
This map depicts COVID-19 housing protection legislation and housing justice action around the world. Click on the map to learn more.
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Iran
Top Nuclear Scientist Killed
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a top nuclear scientist in Iran, was killed in an ambush in the rural town of Absard in northern Iran on Friday, according to state media. Fakhrizadeh was the previous head of AMAD, a program reportedly charged with investigating the feasibility of developing nuclear weapons that was formally dismantled in 2003, and remained active in Iran’s current nuclear programs. Iranian state media claims Israeli forces operating a remote-control machine gun from a car that later exploded were responsible for Fakhrizadeh’s assassination. Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami has vowed to find and punish those responsible for the attack, which officials in Iran have characterized as an act of terrorism.
This map depicts the route of Fakhrizadeh’s convoy in Absard at the time of the attack. Click on the map to expand.
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Graphic Source: The Sun
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Nigeria
Militant Attacks
On Saturday, militants killed at least 110 people in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno according to the United Nations (UN) after initial tolls indicated 43 and then at least 70 dead from the massacre. Authorities stated the killings took place in the Koshobe village’s rice fields and other rural communities in the Jere local government area near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno. The victims, laborers from Sokoto state in north-west Nigeria, roughly 1,000 km (600 mi) away, had traveled to the north-east to find work. At least 43 bodies killed in Koshobe were recovered and taken to Zabarmari village located 2 km (1.24 mi) away, where they were buried on Sunday. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, at least two militant groups are active in the area: Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province. The incident comes a month after Boko Haram fighters killed at least 22 farmers working on irrigation fields near Maiduguri in two separate incidents.
This map depicts the location where the killings took place as well as the village of Zabarmari where 43 people were buried. Click on the map to expand.
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Q: With an area of over 1,564,100 sq km (603,902 sq mi), and a population of just over 3.2 million, which independent country has the lowest population density?
A: Mongolia
Although Greenland and the Falkland Islands have a slightly lower population density, they are not categorized as independent countries but rather autonomous territories. Mongolia claims the title of least dense independent country with a population density of 1.9 people per square km. About 45% of the population lives in the capital of Ulaanbaatar, the coldest capital city in the world. Mongolia’s landscape is largely steppe, desert, and semidesert, with 75% of the land used for livestock grazing.
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Q: Last erupted in the 1700s, which Caribbean island is home to the world’s only drive-in volcano?
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