UPSC Prelims 2023 · Question 53 of 97

UPSC Prelims 2023 question on North Kivu Ituri Conflict

Consider the following pairs:

Regions often in the 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?

  1. Only one
  2. Only two
  3. All three
  4. None
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Answer: D. None

Analysis

None of the pairs are correctly matched → Option (d) None.

Statement by statement

Pair 1 – NOT CORRECTLY MATCHED: North Kivu and Ituri are provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that have been affected by conflict for decades. Since February 2023, violence and conflict in eastern DRC has increased — not related to the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Pair 2 – NOT CORRECTLY MATCHED: Nagorno-Karabakh, known as Artsakh by Armenians, is a landlocked mountainous area in the South Caucasus. The territory is internationally recognised as part of oil-rich Azerbaijan, but its inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Armenians. The area is disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia — not related to Insurgency in Mozambique.

Pair 3 – NOT CORRECTLY MATCHED: The regions Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were in news because in September 2022 Russia occupied Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson — not related to a dispute between Israel and Lebanon.

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