Portal:Current events/April 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• Coronavirus recession

Disasters

• 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
• 2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 South Pacific cyclone season
• 2019–20 Australian bushfire season
• 2019–20 European windstorm season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Hong Kong protests
• Iraqi protests
• Israeli political crisis
• Kashmir lockdown
• Libyan peace process
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)

Elections and referendums

Recent

• April
  • 15: South Korea, National Assembly
  • 19: Mali, National Assembly (2nd)
  • 21: Kiribati, House of Assembly (2nd)

Upcoming

• May
  • 10: Poland, President

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States: Michael Avenatti, Harvey Weinstein

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Cambodia: Kem Sokha
• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Malta: Murder of Daphne Caruana
• Philippines: Leila de Lima, Maria Ressa, Marcos vs. Robredo electoral protest
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, Catalan police leadership
• United Kingdom: Alex Salmond
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, Raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, 6ix9ine
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Golden State Killer, Nikolas Cruz
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
  • 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
  • 2019–20 La Liga
  • 2019–20 Premier League
  • 2019–20 Serie A
  • 2019–20 Bundesliga
  • 2019–20 Ligue 1
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga
• American football
  • 2020 XFL season
• Basketball
  • 2019–20 EuroLeague
  • 2019–20 NBA season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2020 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2019–20 NHL season
  • 2019–20 KHL season
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
  • 2019–20 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 curling season
  • 2019–20 figure skating season
  • 2019–20 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

April 2020

• 30: Rishi Kapoor
• 29: Giacomo dalla Torre
• 29: Irrfan Khan
• 27: Lynn Harrell
• 27: Ramon Jimenez Jr.
• 27: Mohammad Shariff
• 25: Ravi Vallathol
• 24: Grandma Lee
• 24: Stefan Lippe
• 24: Harold Reid
• 23: Norbert Blüm
• 22: Shirley Knight
• 21: Dimitri Diatchenko
• 21: Donald Kennedy
• 21: Laisenia Qarase
• 20: Tom Lester
• 19: Alexander Vustin
• 18: Paul H. O'Neill
• 18: Lucien Szpiro
• 17: Norman Hunter
• 16: Christophe
• 16: Gene Deitch
• 16: Howard Finkel
• 16: Matthew Seligman
• 15: Ranjit Chowdhry
• 15: Brian Dennehy
• 15: Lee Konitz
• 14: Hank Steinbrenner
• 13: Landelino Lavilla Alsina
• 13: Juan Cotino
• 13: Moraes Moreira
• 12: Peter Bonetti
• 12: Tim Brooke-Taylor
• 12: Stirling Moss
• 12: Doug Sanders
• 11: John Horton Conway
• 11: Edem Kodjo
• 11: Alojz Uran
• 10: Enrique Múgica
• 9: Clément-Joseph Hannouche
• 9: Mort Drucker
• 8: Pat Stapleton
• 8: Linda Tripp
• 7: Henry Graff
• 7: John Prine
• 7: Barbara Smoker
• 6: James Drury
• 5: Honor Blackman
• 5: Margaret Burbidge
• 5: Shirley Douglas
• 5: Mahmoud Jibril
• 5: Bobby Mitchell
• 4: Arlene Schnitzer
• 4: Alexander Thynn
• 2: Patricia Bosworth
• 2: William Frankland
• 1: Nur Hassan Hussein
• 1: Ellis Marsalis Jr.
• 1: Adam Schlesinger

March 2020

• 31: James A. Redden
• 30: Joe Ashton
• 30: Tomie dePaola
• 30: Manolis Glezos
• 30: James T. Goodrich
• 30: Hau Pei-tsun
• 30: Bill Withers
• 30: Joachim Yhombi-Opango

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • ADF insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
  • Turkish intervention in Libya
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Islamist insurgency in Mozambique
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
    • Border skirmishes
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • War in North-West Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–PJAK conflict
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • Military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Saudi Arabian–Yemeni border conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2020 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain