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May 29, 2022 (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Anglophone Crisis
- Twenty-four people are killed and more than 60 injured in an attack by Anglophone rebels in Cameroon. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

Tara Air Flight 197
- A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter airplane goes missing with 22 people on board after going over high mountains in Nepal. (AP)
A Cessna 182 takes off from Split, Croatia, and heads to Germany before disappearing from radar north from Rakovica. (The Washington Post) (The Dubrovnik Times)
One person is killed and eleven others injured after a boat capsizes in Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado, United States; another is reported missing. (AP)

Health and environment

International relations

Chairperson of the African Union Macky Sall calls for dialogue between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda amid rising tensions between the two countries over the resurgence of the M23 rebels. Rwanda calls it an "internal DR Congo conflict" and also calls for the release of two "kidnapped" Rwandan soldiers along its border with DR Congo. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

2022 Colombian presidential election
- Colombians go to the polls to vote in the presidential election. (NPR)
- Left-wing candidate, former 19th of April Movement guerrilla and former Bogotá mayor Gustavo Petro, and populist former Bucaramanga mayor Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, win 40% and 28% of the vote respectively. They will face off in the second round in June. (CNN)
Pope Francis appoints twenty-one new cardinals. Most of the cardinals are from outside Europe. (AP)

Sports

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 '''Armed conflicts and attacks'''
 *[[Anglophone Crisis]]
-**Twenty-four people are [[massacre]]d and more than 60 injured in an attack by [[Anglophone Cameroonian|Anglophone]] rebels in [[Cameroon]]. [https://www.barrons.com/news/gunmen-kill-24-in-anglophone-cameroon-says-mayor-01654014607?tesla=y (''Barron's'')]
+**Twenty-four people are killed and more than 60 injured in an attack by [[Anglophone Cameroonian|Anglophone]] rebels in [[Cameroon]]. [https://www.barrons.com/news/gunmen-kill-24-in-anglophone-cameroon-says-mayor-01654014607?tesla=y (''Barron's'')]
 '''Disasters and accidents'''
 *[[Tara Air Flight 197]]