By The Numbers: Coups in Africa — VOA Special Report
WEBOct 3, 2023 · By Megan Duzor and Brian Williamson | VOA News Last updated: October 3, 2023. The African continent saw a significant increase in coups in the last three years, with military figures carrying out takeovers in Gabon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad and Mali. After Niger’s coup in July, the regional Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it would not tolerate another ...
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters
WEBJun 1, 2021 · The researchers. Jillian Peterson, Ph.D., and James Densley, Ph.D., built the groundbreaking database on mass shooters. Densley, a professor of criminal justice at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota, told VOA the idea for the database came about after he and Peterson grew increasingly frustrated with television analyses in the aftermath of mass shootings that offered the ...
Five Years Later | A Timeline of Migrant Family Separations
WEBNovember 2017 Houston Chronicle publishes first reports of family separation. The Houston Chronicle reports that the Trump administration has been separating children since June 2017. It identifies 22 cases of families whose children were taken from them without due process, showing that former U.S. officials started the pilot program to separate children from parents at the border more than a ...
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | School shootings
WEBMass shootings (1966 - February 2020) Nineteen children and two teachers were killed May 24, 2022, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, about 135 kilometers west of San Antonio. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a news conference that the 18-year-old gunman was believed to have been killed by responding police.
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WEBVOA's in-depth analysis comparing hardships endured by the people of Afghanistan under two periods of Taliban rule across Diplomacy and Recognition, Violence and Terrorism, Media and Religious Freedom, Economy and Foreign Aid, and Women's rights categories. Story available in English, Dari, Pashto, Urdu Published in August 2023.
Ground Zero - Then and Now | VOA Special Projects
WEBThe 9/11 attacks destroyed much more than the Twin Towers. A total of 10 buildings were lost in the area that came to be known as Ground Zero. In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, reconstruction has transformed the area with memorials that honor what was lost and new buildings that provide spaces for business, shopping, transportation, education and prayer.
Israel & Palestine: Weighing the solutions - Voice of America
WEBThe most common alternative to the two-state solution is that of a single binational state on the territory of the former British Mandate for Palestine, with equal civil and political rights for all its residents. Such an arrangement had been proposed by some Jewish and Arab leaders prior to the establishment of Israel and continues to be ...
Afghanistan | The costs of war - Voice of America
WEB171336. Sources: Brown University, Department of Defense. The Pentagon says U.S. military operations in Afghanistan have cost $824.9 billion since 2001. Brown University’s researchers put the total cost of operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan at nearly $2.3 trillion. Timeline.
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | House of Worship …
WEBThe first mass shooting at a house of worship in the modern era occurred in 1980 during Sunday services at First Baptist Church in Daingerfield, Texas. Five people were killed and 10 others were injured. The shooting was prompted by revenge involving a criminal domestic issue. Mass shootings are defined by the Congressional Research Service as ...
VOA Special Report | History of mass shooters | Search the data
WEBHealth and Mental Health. More than two-thirds of mass shooters had a history of mental health concerns, which is higher than the 50% of people in the general population who will satisfy criteria for a mental illness at some point in their lives. Before they carried out their crimes, more than 80% of mass shooters displayed signs crises ...