Map of the Day: Where People Have Been Forced to Flee From Their Homes in 2017 Mark Leon Goldberg August 17, 2017 Today's map comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, which tracks internal displacement around the world. People become "internally displaced" when they are forced to flee their homes because of ...
This is How a Mudslide Can Kill So Many People in Sierra Leone Kimberly Curtis August 15, 2017 Rainy season is currently upon Sierra Leone but this year the rains brought more than the country can handle. Heavy rains over the weekend around the capitol Freetown resulted in flash flooding and several maj...
Map of the Day: A New Food Emergency Mark Leon Goldberg August 14, 2017 Today's map comes from a UN-entity known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification program. This is a group of food security and agricultural experts from the World Food Program and the Food and Agri...
These Podcast Episodes Will Help You Understand the North Korea Crisis Mark Leon Goldberg August 11, 2017 Bellicose statements by President Trump and the unrelenting progress made in North Korea's nuclear activities have set the stage for a confrontation between the United States and North Korea-- a confrontation t...
More people have died because Yemen’s main airport is closed than from the conflict directly Mark Leon Goldberg August 10, 2017 It has been one year since the Saudi-led international coalition stopped all commercial traffic in and out of Sanaa International Airport. The results have been deadly -- perhaps even deadlier than the conflict...
Trump’s Statement About North Korea is How Countries Stumble Into War, Alone Mark Leon Goldberg August 9, 2017 The Trump administration scored a legitimate diplomatic victory last weekend when the Security Council unanimously passed a tough new sanctions package against North Korea. It took him less than a week to under...
Elections in Kenya Have Everyone Worrying About the Prospects of Violence Kimberly Curtis August 7, 2017 Last week, a top election official in Kenya went missing. Days later, his tortured and murdered body was discovered. Chris Msando was the IT manager for the country's independent election commission in charge o...
Souring Relations Between the United States and Russia May Impact North Korea Diplomacy Mark Leon Goldberg August 4, 2017 The Security Council is reportedly close to a new draft resolution ramping up sanctions on North Korea. The new round of diplomacy kicked off in earnest last month after North Korea tested a ballistic missile o...
Map of the Day: Where it Will Be Too Hot To Live By 2100 Mark Leon Goldberg August 3, 2017 Today's map comes from scientists at MIT, who found that significant portions of Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could be uninhabitable in 73 years. Using climate modeling scenarios, th...
