Mali accuses France of "abandoning the country" by reducing its forces in the fight against jihadist groups. In response to the remarks, France accuses Mali's military junta of "wiping their feet on the blood of French soldiers". (Channel 4)
Five Sudanese security forces personnel are killed and a sixth is injured during clashes with an IS-linked group in Khartoum. Eleven terrorists are arrested. (Reuters)
Singapore reports a record 2,236 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 91,775. (The Star)
Romania reports a record 11,049 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,210,810. (RFE/RL)
Serbia reports a record 8,467 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 926,269. (Tanjug)
Victoria reports a record 867 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, including 149 cases not previously reported due to technical issues. (9 News)
Costa Rica mandates that all state workers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 despite not specifying a deadline, making it the first Latin American country to impose a vaccination mandate. (Reuters)
Australia and Nauru announce that, last week, they renewed their agreement to maintain a detention center in Nauru for asylum seekers and refugees who are attempting to reach Australia. Australia has provided millions of dollars in order to maintain the offshore detention center. (RNZ)
Twenty-five people are injured, four critically, during an explosion at a block of flats in Gothenburg, Sweden. An accident has been ruled out, with authorities suspecting a criminal background. (The Guardian)
In a 35-page report, a commission appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate sex abuses during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds that there were "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" for the sex abuse and rape of women and girls between 2018 and 2020 by WHO staff. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom apologizes for the abuses. (France 24)