Portal:Current events/August 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 European windstorm season
• 2019–20 locust infestation
• 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2020 China floods
• 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020 Pacific hurricane season
• 2020 Pacific typhoon season
• 2020 wildfire season
• 2016–2020 Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• George Floyd protests
• Haitian protests
• Hong Kong protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir lockdown
• Khabarovsk Krai protests
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Nicaraguan protests
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Serbian protests
• Thai protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• August
  • 30: Liechtenstein, Referendums
  • 30: Montenegro, Parliament

Ongoing

• August
  • 12 – 1 September: Bougainville, President, House of Representatives

Upcoming

• September
  • 3: Jamaica, House of Representatives
  • 8–9: Egypt, Senate (2nd)
  • 11: Iran, Majlis (2nd)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Congo DR: Vital Kamerhe
• France: François Fillon
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Philippines: Maria Ressa
• Russia: Paul Whelan
• Spain: Catalan police leadership

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Cambodia: Kem Sokha
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe Velez
• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, Barcelona and Cambrils attacks
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, North Korean Embassy in Madrid raid, 6ix9ine
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Philippines: CIDG sedition cases
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2020 Major League Soccer season
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League qualifying round
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League qualifying round
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2020 MLB season
  • 2020 NPB season
• Softball
• Basketball
  • 2020 NBA Playoffs
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2019–20 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs
  • 2019–20 KHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 NASCAR Cup Series
• Rugby sevens
  • 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
  • 2020 AFL season
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

August 2020

• 31: Pranab Mukherjee
• 30: John Thompson
• 28: Chadwick Boseman
• 28: Antoinette Spaak
• 27: Bob Armstrong
• 27: Ebru Timtik
• 26: Gerald Carr
• 26: Dirk Mudge
• 26: Joe Ruby
• 25: Arnold Spielberg
• 24: Chitta Ranjan Dutta
• 24: Pascal Lissouba
• 24: Jorge Sanjinez Lenz
• 24: Gail Sheehy
• 23: Giannis Poulopoulos
• 23: Justin Townes Earle
• 22: Ulla Pia
• 20: Frank Cullotta
• 20: Chi Chi DeVayne
• 20: Branko Kostić
• 19: Borys Paton
• 18: Ben Cross
• 17: Mário de Araújo Cabral
• 16: Xavier
• 15: Angela Buxton
• 15: Robert Trump
• 14: Francesc Badia Batalla
• 14: Julian Bream
• 14: James R. Thompson
• 13: Darío Vivas
• 12: Mónica Miguel
• 11: Trini Lopez
• 11: Sumner Redstone
• 10: Tetsuya Watari
• 9: Kamala
• 9: Kurt Luedtke
• 8: Pedro Casaldáliga
• 8: Alfredo Lim
• 7: Rahat Indori
• 7: Lê Khả Phiêu
• 7: Lorenzo Soria
• 6: Brent Scowcroft
• 5: Hawa Abdi
• 5: Agathonas Iakovidis
• 4: Nazar Najarian
• 3: John Hume
• 2: Gregory Areshian
• 2: Leon Fleisher
• 1: Khosrow Sinai
• 1: Wilford Brimley
• 1: Tom Pollock
• 1: Reni Santoni

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
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
  • Turkish intervention in Libya
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• 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
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• 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
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai terror attacks
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• 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