Portal:Current events/2019 January 20
January 20, 2019 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Northern Mali conflict
- At least ten United Nations peacekeepers are killed and several others injured in a Islamist militant attack on their base in Mali's northern Kidal Region. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Chad–Israel relations
- Chad and Israel restore diplomatic relations with each other after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chadian President Idriss Déby in N'Djamena. Chad severed ties with Israel in 1972. (i24 News)