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Latest revision as of 15:21, 17 November 2023
May 2, 2023 (2023-05-02) (Tuesday)Armed conflicts and attacks
- War in Sudan (2023)
- Darfur campaign
- Battle of Geneina
- Rapid Support Forces re-capture Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, after a week of fighting with more than 200 people killed. (Middle East Eye) (Dabanga Sudan)
- Battle of Geneina
- 2023 Sudanese refugee crisis
- The number of Sudanese refugees due to the ongoing civil conflict surpasses 100,000 after only a few days. (Reuters)
- Darfur campaign
- Somali Civil War
- Somali forces kill 67 al-Shabaab militants and seize many weapons in a continuation of offensives against the group in the Mudug region. (VOA)
- A Uganda People's Defence Force soldier assassinates retired colonel and cabinet member Charles Engola at his home in Kampala, while acting as his bodyguard. The soldier later commits suicide. (BBC News)
Business and economy
- 2023 Writers Guild of America strike
- The Writers Guild of America goes on strike for the first time since 2007–08. (Los Angeles Times)
- Indian airline Go First files for bankruptcy with the National Company Law Tribunal, blaming "faulty" Pratt & Whitney-manufactured engines for the grounding of about half of its fleet, costing the airline 108 billion rupees ($1.32 billion) in lost revenues. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- List of earthquakes in 2023
- Ten people are injured and more than 2,805 buildings are damaged after a magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes Baoshan, Yunnan, China. (ChinaDaily)
- Five people are missing in Darchula District, Nepal, after being struck by an avalanche. (Xinhua)
Law and crime
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Khader Adnan dies in an Israeli prison after a three-month hunger strike. (Al Jazeera)
- Indonesian Ulema Council shooting
- A man armed with an airgun opens fire at the Indonesian Ulema Council headquarters in Menteng, Central Jakarta, Java, injuring two employees. The attacker later dies at a local health center. (Detik)
- LGBT rights in Uganda, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023
- The parliament of Uganda passes new anti-LGBTQ+ laws after president Yoweri Museveni requested reforms. The bill maintains the death penalty as a punishment for "aggravated homosexuality". (Reuters)
- The United States Department of Defense announces that it will deploy 1,500 troops along the Mexican border to provide non-law enforcement related administrative assistance to the United States Border Patrol. (CNN)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Greek legislative election
- The Greek Supreme Civil and Criminal Court bans the far-right National Party, led by Ilias Kasidiaris, from participating in the upcoming general election, after the court accused the party of being a "continuation of the Golden Dawn". (France 24)