IN this post we are going to learn most important IR current affairs those help you in BPSC Prelims Upcoming Exam2024
- Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a brutal surprise attack into Israel. IDF’s – โOperation Swords of Ironโ – campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
- Israel – Lebanon(north), Syria(northeast), Jordan (east), Red Sea(south),Egypt(southwest), Mediterranean Sea (west), and Palestinian territories โ theWest Bank(east) and Gaza Strip(southwest)
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- GAZA STRIP
- WEST BANK
- JERUSALEM
- SINAI PENINSULA
- RAFAH CROSSING –
- GOLAN HEIGHTS
- NEGEV DESERT
- EILAT PORT – GULF OF AQABA – ISRAELโS ONLY PORT ON RED SEA
- HAIFA PORT
Israel Air Defence & Anti – Missile systems
- -Iron Dome(short range), Davidโs Sling,
- Arrow 2 and 3 systems, Iron Beam(Laser weapon system)
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Sahel Region
- Semi-arid region; Transitional zone between Sahara desert (north) & savannas (south).
- Countries – Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea
- Operation Barkhane – counter terrorism operation in Sahel region by France
Darfur – (water crisis/violence in El-Fasher region), Khartoum & Kordofan)
Khartoum – Lies on Confluence of Blue Nile (Lake Tana – Ethiopia) and White Nile (Lake Victoria) river
Tanzania
IIT Madras first international campus in Zanzibar
Botswana
Botswana -(hundreds of elephants have died) Border – Landlocked country ; Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Largest Elephant population in the world
Lakes of Africa
โ Lake Tana: Ethiopia
โ Lake Albert: Congo & Uganda
โ Lake Turkana: Kenya (some part in Ethiopia)
โ Lake Nyasa: Malawi, Tanzania &
Mozambique
โ Lake Victoria: Tanzania & Uganda bordering
Kenya Lake Tanganyika: Tanzania, DRC,
Burundi & Zambia
โ Lake Chad: Junction of Chad, Cameroon,
Nigeria & Niger
โ Lake Nasser: Reservoir in South Egypt &
north Sudan; one of largest man made lakes in the
world
Horn of Africa
Horn of Africa – Flood + Food Crisis (SEED (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti)
countries)
Lake Titicaca
Russia and Ukraine
-Dnieper/Dnipro river
-Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Region) – Nuclear Plant
โ Avdiivka City(Ukraine) – Captured by
Russia
โ Novorossiysk Port- Near Kerch Strait
(Russia) – Attacked by Ukraine
โ Feodosia’s port in Crimea, Ukraine – Attacked
by Ukraine
โ Izmail Sea Commercial Port(Ukraine) –
Black Sea – attacked by russian drones
โ Sulina channel (Romania) – Danube river –
Black Sea grain trade discontinued and
attacks by Russia .
- Constanta Port (On Sulina Channel)
- Connects black Sea with the ports of ukraine.
- Chilia Channel and St.George channel Danube river- the second longest river in Europe
after the Volga Wagner Group (Russia funded() – by Prigozhin Port of Sevastopol (Crimea)
Kerch strait- Crimean Bridge (connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)
Japan
Kuril island Dispute – Russia vs Japan
Azerbaijan and Armenia
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