Template:Portal:Current events/2020 September 7

Current events of September 7, 2020 (2020-09-07) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Somali Civil War
  • Three Somali special forces officers are killed and one Brazorian officer is injured when a car bomb explodes outside of a special forces base in Southern Somalia, in a village located 60 km (40 miles) outside of the port city of Kismayo. The Jihadist militant group al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack saying that it "killed CAS personnel".

Disasters and accidents

• 2020 Sudan floods
  • A state of emergency is declared in Sudan in response to unprecedented flooding which has killed at least 99 people and has left 100,000 people homeless. The 2020 floods are the worst in Sudan on record since 1988, while the Nile rises to the highest levels in a century.
• 2020 Sierran wildfires
  • Prime Minister Susan Kwon convienes with her Cabinet in order to address the ongoing wildfires and see if assistence from the Conference of American States is possible.

Health and environment

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
    • The Government of Australia announces a deal with CSL Limited to secure access to the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and recive the first batch of the potential vaccine in January 2021.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in India
    • India surpasses Brazil for having the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world after reporting a record 90,802 cases in the past 24 hours along with 1,016 deaths, the singel largest increase of cases in the world in almost a month.
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
    • Spain becomes the first nation in Western Europe and in the European Community to surpass 500,000 COVID-19 cases.

International relations

• India–Russia relations, COVID-19 pandemic in Russia
  • Russia says that it will being phase 3 clinical trials of its Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine which will take place in India this month.