Forget Kenya: Unreported Events That Happened in 2022 Across the World

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As 2022 comes to an end, here are some of the most unforgettable things that happened in 2022;

• Nov 15: World's population reaches 8 billion, just 11 years after passing 7 billion, though now slowing down (9 billion expected in about 2037), according to the UN

 

Europe:

• February 24: Russia Invades Ukraine: Russia launched a "special military operation" that it said was needed to force the “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.”

• September 28; Queen of England Dies 
• Oct 14: Coal mine explosion in Amasra, northern Turkey, kills 41 and injures 11

 Africa

• JAN 24: At least 34 people were killed and 65,000 were left homeless after two different tropical storms batter Madagascar and Mozambique with Madagascar's capital Antananarivo particularly affected.

• FEB 5: The body of five-year-old Moroccan boy Rayan Oram was retrieved from the well he fell down four days previously after a huge rescue effort.

• Nov 6: Plane crashes into Tanzania's Lake Victoria killing 19 people on board, with 24 survivors 

• Nov 20: World's longest-serving president, authoritarian leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, wins re-election in Equatorial Guinea, extending his 43-year rule

America

• Apr 4: Elon Musk buys 9.2% of the Twitter stock, making him the company's largest shareholder 

• Sep 14: Musician R. Kelly found convicted of further sex crimes in Chicago, including producing child sexual abuse imagery

• Sep 25: Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage as part of a new family code in a national referendum

• Oct 8: Landslide caused by unusually heavy rain kills at least 50 in Las Tejerias, Venezuela

Asia

• Oct 1: Stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium kills 131 people in Malang city, East Java, started after police fire teargas at rioters in the crowd

• Nov 10: Afghanistan's ruling Taliban ban women from using public parks and funfairs

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