On average, 500 nurses leave Ghana for the West every month.

According to the World Health Organization’s WHO health workforce support and safeguards list 2023, some 55 countries have significant health staffing shortages—by the numbers, that means fewer than the median of 49 health workers per 10,000 people—and 40 of them are in Africa. In other words, roughly 80% of Africa is experiencing medical staff shortages and high rates of healthcare professionals leaving to work in other countries.

A larger share of the world’s terrorism-related deaths come from Africa’s Sahel region than South Asia and MENA combined.

Each year, the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) produces Global Terrorism Index, or GTI, for 163 separate countries. The most recent GTI finds that, by the numbers, terrorism deaths dropped slightly during 2022. However, much of that “decline” is a result of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan: since the Taliban is now the government, it isn’t included in GTI’s terrorist calculations.

But the index’s most eye-opening finding? The Sahel now accounts for 43 percent of the world’s terrorism deaths—more than South Asia and the MENA region combined.

Three-quarters of those living in Taiwan consider themselves to be Taiwanese instead of Chinese—a sharp increase from a decade ago.

Nearly 24 million people live in Taiwan. Historically, two major ethnic groups make up its residents: Han refugees from mainland China who came to Taiwan at the end of the Ming Dynasty in mid-17th Century and again at the end of the Chinese Civil War in the late 40s, and indigenous Taiwanese who have lived on the Island for millennia. When nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in 1949, he proclaimed that his regime, in Taiwan, was the “true democratic government of Free China.” Its official name—from the US perspective— continues to be the “Republic of China,” and it has flourished as one of Asia’s most vibrant democracies.

Four of the ten most-downloaded apps in the United States—across both Apple and Google platforms—are owned by Chinese companies.

TikTok was the most-downloaded app globally last year, boasting nearly ninety million monthly users in the United States alone. But after an internal investigation from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance found that a number of employees had been taking data from TikTok accounts based in the United States, its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, was asked to testify on Capitol Hill about the app’s data security and privacy practices. While he may have hoped to allay fears about TikTok’s procedures and practices, the hearing quickly turned contentious, and a number of members openly ridiculed his answers to their questions.