2022 Colombian presidential election Gustavo Petro is inaugurated as the first left-wing president of Colombia.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Pakistani Taliban militant Omar Khalid Khorasani and three other militants are killed as their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.
Ituri conflict Twenty people are killed when suspected Islamists attack two villages in Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Islamist insurgency in the Sahel Forty-two soldiers and four civilians are killed during an attack near the town of Tessit by Islamic State in the Greater Sahara gunmen. Twenty-two other soldiers are wounded, and 37 of the attackers are also killed.