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4 questions

• 2023 · Question 78 · Places in News

  Which one of the following countries has been suffering from decades of civil strife and food shortages and was in news in the recent past for its very severe famine?

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  (a)Angola(b)Costa Rica(c)Ecuador(d)Somalia

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  Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary), General Studies Paper I (opens in a new tab)

• 2023 · Question 93 · Places in News

  Consider the following pairs : Regions often mentioned in news | Reason for being in news 1. North Kivu and Ituri | War between Armenia and Azerbaijan 2. Nagorno-Karabakh | Insurgency in Mozambique 3. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia | Dispute between Israel and Lebanon How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

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  (a)Only one(b)Only two(c)All three(d)None

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  Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary), General Studies Paper I (opens in a new tab)

• 2023 · Question 97 · Places in News

  Consider the following pairs : Area of conflict mentioned in news | Country where it is located 1. Donbas | Syria 2. Kachin | Ethiopia 3. Tigray | North Yemen How many of the above pairs are correctly matched?

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  (a)Only one(b)Only two(c)All three(d)None

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  Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary), General Studies Paper I (opens in a new tab)

• 2023 · Question 98 · Places in News

  In the recent years Chad, Guinea, Mali and Sudan caught the international attention for which one of the following reasons common to all of them?

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  (a)Discovery of rich deposits of rare earth elements(b)Establishment of Chinese military bases(c)Southward expansion of Sahara Desert(d)Successful coups

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  Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary), General Studies Paper I (opens in a new tab)