Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
  • Six people are killed and three others are kidnapped as Islamists insurgents raid the districts of Erati and Memba, Mozambique, torching dozens of houses. Six attackers are arrested.
  • Gunmen storm the Comboni Missionary Sisters' church in Chipene, Mozambique, killing an Italian nun and setting ablaze the church, the nuns' homes and the hospital. Two other nuns and two priests escaped. (Ansa)
• Mali War
  • Fights erupt in the village of Talataye between the Islamic State, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, with the Malian Armed Forces launching airstrikes amid the fighting. At least 30 people are killed. (Crisis24)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Twenty Southern Transitional Council separatist fighters are killed by al-Qaeda gunmen in Abyan Governorate. All of the six attackers are also killed in the gunfight. (Al Jazeera)
• Anglophone Crisis
  • Six people are killed and eight others are injured when separatists open fire on a public bus in South West, Cameroon. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Pacific typhoon season
  • Ten people are killed in South Korea by Typhoon Hinnamnor. Seven of the victims died in a flooded underground car park. In addition, 2,900 people are evacuated and 66,000 homes are damaged. (BBC News)
• September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
  • Six people are killed when two earthquakes strike northern Afghanistan. (Reuters)
• 2022 Binh Duong karaoke bar fire
  • At least 32 people are killed in a karaoke bar fire in Binh Duong, Vietnam. (BBC News)
• 2022 Africa floods
  • 2022 Chad floods
    • Thousands of people evacuate in N'Djamena, Chad, due to extensive flooding caused by the country's heaviest rains in 30 years. An estimated 442,000 Chadians have been impacted by the floods since the end of August. (Reuters)
• A car crash in south Sydney, Australia kills 5 children and leaves an 18-year-old driver with minor injuries. (SBS)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • COVID-19 vaccination in India
      • India approves a nasal COVID-19 vaccine to combat COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after China. (CNA)
• 2022 monkeypox outbreak
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Asia
    • Hong Kong confirms its first case of monkeypox. (Reuters)
  • 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States
    • Wisconsin and North Carolina expand their eligibility for the monkeypox vaccine in at-risk communities. (WPDE-TV) (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Law and crime

• 2022 Kiribati constitutional crisis
  • Kiribati suspends three retired New Zealand judges from the Kiribati Court of Appeal as the constitutional crisis worsens. (Reuters)
• January 6 United States Capitol attack
  • Couy Griffin, a commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, is barred from public office by a state judge due to his involvement in the January 6 attack, which was determined to be an insurrection. This is the first time that the Fourteenth Amendment has been used in more than a century to ban a person who participated in an insurrection from serving in the government. (New York Times) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Conservative Party leadership election
  • Liz Truss succeeds Boris Johnson to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (Sky News)
• One person is killed during anti-U.N. protests in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)

Arts

• An AI Artist is open sourced
  • Artificial intelligence art meets Open Source. A model that cost $600000 (The Decoder) to train, is released for use by anyone, stirring controversy about creativity and the future of art, artists and digital illustrators. (InfoQ)