Portal:Current events/2023 May 8

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Manipur violence
  • The death toll from the ethnic clashes in Manipur, India, between Metei Hindus and Kuki Christians, increases to 60. At least 230 others are injured. (Times Now)
• Sudanese nomadic conflicts
  • Twenty-five people are killed during clashes between the Hausa and Nuba tribes in Kosti, Sudan. (AP)
• Ethiopian civil conflict
  • The head of the Prosperity Party in Haruka Woreda, in Ethiopia's Afar Region, is shot and killed alongside his brother by unknown gunmen while returning from the city of Adama, Oromia. It is the third assassination targeting the party's members in the past month. (Addis Standard)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Rajasthan MiG-21 crash
  • Three women are killed and three others are injured when a MiG-21 aircraft of the Indian Air Force crashes into a house in Hanumangarh, Rajasthan. The pilot safely ejects from the aircraft. (The Times of India)

Law and crime

• Blasphemy law in Iran, Capital punishment in Iran
  • Iran executes two men for blasphemy. (DW)