9 January –
Qatar reports a record 3,487 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 266,344.[1]
30 January –
Qatar begins administering the
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 5 and 11 years. It comes after the Ministry of Public Health approves the use of the vaccine for this age group.[2]
27 February – The
Associated Press reveals that
Qatar, the host of the World Cup, paid more than $10 million for "Project Riverbed", a covert influence campaign run between 2012 and 2014 by a former
CIA operative's company, which was aimed at neutralizing
Theo Zwanziger's criticism of
FIFA's decision-making process for Qatar's host bid, which Zwanziger accused of being corrupt.[3]
8 August – The government of
Chad and more than 30 rebel and opposition factions sign a peace agreement at talks in
Doha,
Qatar. However, the main rebel group
Front for Change and Concord in Chad rejects the agreement, saying that negotiators had not listened to their demands, which included the release of
political prisoners.[9]