Ninety-six people are injured, some critically, in a bombing at a mosque inside a school in Jakarta, Indonesia. A 17-year-old male is identified as the perpetrator and later recovered at a hospital, right-wing terrorism is suspected.
Indonesia repatriates British nationals Lindsay Sandiford, sentenced to death for smugglingcocaine into Bali in 2013, and Shahab Shahabadi, who was serving a life sentence for drug offences, following a bilateral agreement on humanitarian grounds. Both are transferred to the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of their sentences under UK law.
Australia begins to deport hundreds of non-citizens to Nauru, as part of a bilateral agreement between both countries, in which Australia will pay Nauru A$2.5 billion (US$1.6 billion) over 30 years in exchange for Nauru issuing visas to these individuals deported from Australia.
Prosecutors in Tanzania charge 98 people with treason over their alleged participation in violent protests against the re-election of presidentSamia Suluhu Hassan last week.