What in the World? Weekly Quiz - October 14-20, 2019

The 100th Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded went to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in recognition of his efforts to “achieve peace and international cooperation” that led to the end of THIS inter-state conflict.
A 20-year military stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea
A 40-year insurgency by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda
A 102-year border dispute between Egypt and Sudan
A 15-year secessionist struggle in Morocco’s Western Sahara region

On Friday, the Trump administration threatened new sanctions against Turkey if Turkey does THIS. The move follows widespread bipartisan condemnation of the administration’s decision to remove US troops from northern Syria, which some lawmakers have argued gave Turkey a green light to move into the region.

 

Releases captured Islamic State fighters
Strikes American military targets
Targets religious and ethnic minorities
Arrests the leader of the Republican People’s Party
All 11 of the National Basketball Association’s partners in China have suspended ties with the league and developmental NBA games have been cancelled in the country after THIS act by Houston Rockets coach Daryl Morey put the organization in the middle of a political controversy.
He criticized China’s monetary policy for currency undervaluation
He called China’s re-education camps in Xinjiang “concentration camps”
He tweeted an image in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protestors
He posted a photo posing with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen

THIS country became the first to ban advertisements on sugary drinks in what the government has deemed its latest move in an ongoing “war on diabetes.”

 
Australia
Japan
Sweden
Singapore

The Trump administration has announced the deployment of additional troops to Saudi Arabia to “assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia,” as relations continue to deteriorate between the Kingdom and Iran. This announcement follows allegations by Iran that THIS occurred, leading to another spike in oil prices. 

Two missiles struck an Iranian tanker in the Red Sea
A Saudi fighter jet was shot down over Tehran
Three Iranian officials were arrested in Riyadh
Coordinated suicide attacks destroyed five oil refineries outside Dammam

Major donors of international assistance to Uganda, including the United States and the European Union, have announced they are closely monitoring the East African country’s decision to do THIS before the end of the year.

 

 

Implement a nation-wide blackout of social media as campaigning begins for presidential elections
Deport the Uganda Director of Human Rights Watch in response to a report shaming the country’s treatment of journalists
Expel 40,000 Congolese refugees to prevent the spread of Ebola
Reintroduce a controversial bill to punish same-sex relationships with the death penalty

Following two days of talks between the United States and China, President Trump used THIS phrase to describe the status of negotiations between the two countries working to solve the 18-month trade war.

There is “nothing but bad news” to announce thus far
US and China have “agreed in principle” with further negotiations to come
Agreements to date are simply “some purchases and a bunch of fluff”
The talks have “failed to resolve intellectual property disputes”

An attack on a synagogue in THIS German city that was live-streamed resulted in the deaths of two people on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. German authorities have characterized the attacker as a right-wing extremist with a clear anti-Semitic motive and speculated the death toll would have been greater had the assailant’s weaponry not malfunctioned.

 

Munich
Halle
Leipzig
Hannover

THIS three-time ambassador — who described the State Department as “attacked and hollowed out from within,” in prepared remarks at a closed-door Congressional hearing — has come into the spotlight in the midst of the ongoing whistleblower investigation involving Ukraine.

 

Woody Johnson
John Huntsman Jr.
Marie Yovanovitch
Patricia Mahoney

Weeks of protests in Haiti over its economic crisis were further inflamed this past week by THIS. The protests have been fueled by worsening inflation and have brought thousands of Haitians out to the streets calling for the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse.

The killing of a prominent journalist who’d been covering the protests
The implementation of an 8pm curfew in Port-au-Prince
The announcement of increased austerity measures
The decision to amend Haiti’s constitution to eliminate term limits
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