April 29, 2012 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kill four members of Colombian Army on a mission to destroy cocaine laboratories in Caquetá Department with another four soldiers, a police officer and a French journalist missing. (BBC)
- African church attacks:
- Several explosions are reported near a Christian service at Bayero University Kano in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, with at least 16 people killed. (AP via Google News) (AP)
- At least five people are killed in an attack on a Church of Christ in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the Boko Haram radical Islamist sect. (AP)
- One person is killed and 10 injured in a grenade attack at a church in Nairobi, Kenya. (AFP via Google News)
- Four officials are killed in rebel attacks in northern Burma. (The Australian)
- Seven people are killed in a three-way shootout between rival drug cartels and the authorities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the home-state of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the country's most-wanted drug lord. (Fox News)
- Lebanon confiscates a shipment of arms and ammunition meant for Syrian rebels and arrests 11 crewmembers. (BBC)
Disasters
- At least seven people die following a bus crash in Japan's Gunma Prefecture north of Tokyo. (NHK World)[permanent dead link]
- Seven people are killed, including three children, when a vehicle they were in flipped over on the Bronx River Parkway in The Bronx, New York City. (CNN)
International relations
- The final deadline (no more extensions) for the total destruction of chemical weapons stockpiles under the international Chemical Weapons Convention is reached. (RIA Novosti)
- The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits Burma. (CNN)
- 2012 Malian coup d'état: Mali coup leader Amadou Haya Sanogo rejects a decision by the Economic Community of West African States to deploy troops to the country. (France 24)
- Ana Maria Gomes, a Member of the European Parliament, is denied access to Bahrain. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Sudan arrests four foreigners in the disputed border region with South Sudan on accusations of spying. (Arab News)
- Chinese authorities begin to round-up associates of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng in light of his escape from house arrest. (BBC) (Hindustan Times)