Portal:Current events/November 2021/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters

• Climate crisis
• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
• 2021 Pacific typhoon season
• Madagascar food crisis
• Water crisis in Iran
• Yemeni famine
• 2021 La Palma eruption

Economic

• 2020–2021 global chip shortage
• 2021 global supply chain crisis
• COVID-19 recession
• Lebanese liquidity crisis
• Pandora Papers leak
• Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
• Turkish currency and debt crisis
• United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis

Politics

• Belarus−European Union border crisis
• Brazilian protests
• Colombian tax reform protests
• Eswatini protests
• Haitian protests
• Indian farmers' protests
• Insulate Britain protests
• Jersey dispute
• Libyan peace process
• Malaysian political crisis
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Peruvian crisis
• Russian election protests
• Solomon Islands unrest
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• Tunisian political crisis
• Venezuelan presidential crisis

Elections and referendums

Recent

• November
  • 18: Tonga, Legislative Assembly
  • 21: Bulgaria, President (2nd)
  • 21: Chile, President (1st), Senate, Chamber of Deputies
  • 28: Kyrgyzstan, Supreme Council
  • 28: Honduras, President, National Congress

Upcoming

• December
  • 4: The Gambia, President
  • 12: New Caledonia, Independence referendum
  • 12: Transnistria, President

Trials

Recently concluded

• Belarus: Maria Kalesnikava
• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Myanmar: Danny Fenster
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• United States: Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Kyle Rittenhouse, Yanjun Xu, Lev Parnas, R. Kelly, Robert Durst

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
• Canada: Raj Grewal
• France: Brussels ISIL
• Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Italy: Matteo Salvini
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi
• Philippines: Leila de Lima
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Elizabeth Holmes, Jussie Smollett, Ghislaine Maxwell

Upcoming

• Indonesia: Azis Syamsuddin, Alex Noerdin
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
• Sweden: Hamid Nouri
• United States: Allen Weisselberg, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
• ICC: Ali Kushayb

Sport

• Association football
  • 2021–22 UEFA Europa League
  • 2021–22 UEFA Champions league
  • 2021–22 Premier League
  • 2021–22 Bundesliga
  • 2021–22 Serie A
  • 2021–22 La Liga
  • 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2021 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2021 MLS Cup Playoffs
• American football
  • 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season
  • 2021 NCAA Division I FCS football season
  • 2021 NFL season
• Basketball
  • 2021–22 NBA season
  • 2021-22 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Season
  • 2021-22 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Season
• Cricket
  • 2021–23 ICC World Test Championship
  • 2020–23 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League
  • 2019–23 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
  • 2019–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League 
• Canadian football
  • 2021 CFL season
• Golf
  • 2020 PGA Tour Champions
  • 2021 Ladies European Tour
  • 2021–22 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2021–22 NHL season
  • 2021–22 IIHF Continental Cup
• Motorsport
  • 2021 Formula One Championship
  • 2021 Supercars Championship
• Rugby union
  • 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
  • 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
  • 2021–22 Top 14
  • 2021 Super Rugby season
• Tennis
  • 2021 ATP Tour
  • 2020–21 Davis Cup (Finals)
• Other sports seasons
  • 2021–22 International cricket season
  • 2021–22 snooker season
  • 2021–22 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

November

• 29: Arlene Dahl
• 29: David Gulpilil
• 28: Virgil Abloh
• 28: Emily Mkamanga
• 28: Norodom Ranariddh
• 28: Frank Williams
• 27: Curley Culp
• 27: Almudena Grandes
• 26: Stephen Sondheim
• 25: Oleksandr Omelchenko
• 24: Aron Atabek
• 23: Bill Virdon
• 23: James Fitz-Allen Mitchell
• 23: Chun Doo-hwan
• 22: Doug Jones
• 21: Antonio Escohotado
• 19: Ian Fishback
• 18: Peter Buck
• 18: Mick Rock
• 18: Ardeshir Zahedi
• 17: Dave Frishberg
• 17: Art LaFleur
• 17: Young Dolph
• 16: Ri Yong-suk
• 15: Julio Lugo
• 15: Clarissa Eden
• 15: Daulet Sembaev
• 14: Etel Adnan
• 14: W. Sterling Cary
• 13: Sam Huff
• 13: Wilbur Smith
• 12: Dave Hickey
• 12: Matthew Festing
• 11: Glen de Vries
• 11: Graeme Edge
• 11: Winter
• 11: F. W. de Klerk
• 10: Jun Hong Lu
• 9: Max Cleland
• 9: Austin Currie
• 8: Pedro Feliciano
• 8: Seán FitzPatrick
• 8: Mahlagha Mallah
• 8: Abdul Wahab Dalimunthe
• 7: Dean Stockwell
• 6: Angelo Mosca
• 6: Shawn Rhoden
• 6: Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
• 6: Muamer Zukorlić
• 6: Yukhym Zvyahilsky
• 5: Marília Mendonça
• 4: Ruth Ann Minner
• 4: Lionel Blair
• 3: Georgie Dann
• 2: Sabah Fakhri
• 1: Aaron Beck

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Angola
  • Cabinda War
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Chad
  • Insurgency in Northern Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
  • Kamwina Nsapu rebellion
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
  • Oromo conflict
• Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Maghreb and Sahel regions
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency (incl. Lake Chad region)
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Senegal
  • Casamance conflict
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence in South Sudan
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Tunisia
  • ISIL insurgency in Tunisia
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru
• Paraguay
  • Insurgency in Paraguay

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Panjshir conflict
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• India
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
    • Assam separatist movements
    • Insurgency in Manipur
    • Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
  • Khalistan movement
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• 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
  • Philippine drug war
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbas
    • Russo-Ukrainian War
• Ireland and the UK
  • Dissident Irish republican campaign
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Global

• War on terror

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
  • Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
  • Arab separatism in Khuzestan
  • Kurdish separatism in Iran
• Iraq
  • Iraqi conflict
  • 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
    • Israeli-Syrian ceasefire line incidents
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2021 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