Soldiers in the Côte d’Ivoire army took to the streets of the city of Bouake to demand a raise in their salaries on Jan. 6, disarming local police and firing guns and missiles into the air. That protest spread to the cities of Daloa, Daoukro and Korhogo despite calls from the government for soldiers to return to their barracks. 

The government agreed to pay each of the protesting soldiers a bonus worth about $20,000. No casualties were reported during the protests.

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A man deliberately drove his car into pedestrians at the Bourke Street Mall in central Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 20, killing five people and injuring 15 others. Police shot and injured the driver to end the attack.

Police have said that the incident was not a terrorist attack. The driver was known to police and was wanted on suspicion of stabbing his brother that morning. Police had spotted him before the mall attack, but, because it is policy not to pursue suspects in cars, they...

The former president of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, peacefully abdicated the presidency to president-elect Adama Barrow on Jan. 21, a day after troops from neighboring Senegal crossed the border, in support of Barrow, on behalf of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). 

Gambian military leaders and soldiers refused to resist the Senegalese soldiers, and no shots were fired during the operation. On Jan. 26, President Barrow returned to The Gambia from his self-...