Portal:Current events/2022 July 4

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • Oromo conflict
    • Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed says that "citizens in the Oromia region’s Qellen Wellega area have come under a massacre" by the Oromo Liberation Army. Lobbyists say that 150–160 Amhara civilians have been killed. (AP)
• Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
  • Twenty-two people are killed and many others injured during a raid by insurgents in Kossi Province, Burkina Faso. (Reuters)
• 2022 Karakalpak protests
  • The government of Uzbekistan says 18 people have been killed and 243 others injured as protests appear to stabilise in Karakalpakstan, though concerns over the possibility of ethnic conflict remain. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• 2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis
  • Sri Lanka announces a week-long holiday amid fuel and food shortages caused by a worsening economic crisis. (Business Standard)
• 2018–2022 Turkish currency and debt crisis
  • Turkey records its highest inflation in 24 years, which is currently near 80%. (The Guardian)

Disasters and accidents

• 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Bonnie
    • El Salvador suspends classes as Hurricane Bonnie passes through Central America. Deaths have been reported in Nicaragua and El Salvador. (Infobae)
• Sixteen people are killed when a bus plunges into a deep gorge in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India. (AP)
• At least 300 people are injured by a chlorine gas leak in Qalat Sukkar, Iraq. (AP)
• Italian prime minister Mario Draghi declares a state of emergency in five regions of Northern Italy due to a severe drought in the Po Valley. (Deccan Herald)

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru
    • Weightlifter Reanna Solomon dies from COVID-19, becoming Nauru's first recorded fatality of the pandemic. (Inside The Games)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
    • President of Singapore Halimah Yacob tests positive for COVID-19. (CNA)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • Highland Park parade shooting
    • Six people are killed and more than two dozen others injured in a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, United States, during an Independence Day parade. The suspected gunman is later taken into custody in nearby Lake Forest. (CNN)
  • One person is killed and four others injured in a mass shooting outside a nightclub in Sacramento, California, United States. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2022 Papua New Guinean general election
  • Papua New Guineans go to the polls to elect their new government in a heavily guarded election. (Barron's)