Portal:Current events/April 2024/Sidebar

Disasters

• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• H5N1 outbreak
• Haitian crisis

• Iceland volcanic eruptions
• Sudanese refugee crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• South African energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis
• Video game industry layoffs

Politics

• Nigerien crisis
• Scottish government crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Texas border and immigration enforcement efforts

Protests and strikes

• Israel–Hamas war protests

:* University campus protests

• United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes

Recent

• April

:* 17: Croatia, Parliament

:* 17: Solomon Islands, National Parliament

:* 19: India, 2024 Indian general election

:* 21: Ecuador, Constitutional referendum

:* 21: Maldives, People's Majlis

:* 24: North Macedonia, 2024 North Macedonian presidential election

:* 26: India, 2024 Indian general election

:* 29: DR Congo, 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo Senate election

:* 29: Togo, National Assembly

Upcoming

• May

:*{{0}}5: Panama, President, National Assembly

:*{{0}}6: Chad, President

:*{{0}}7: India, 2024 Indian general election

:*{{0}}8: North Macedonia, 2024 North Macedonian presidential election, Assembly

:*10: Iran, 2024 Iranian legislative election

:*12: Lithuania, President, Constitutional referendum

:*13: India, 2024 Indian general election

Recently concluded

• United States:{{0}}Juan Orlando Hernández
• Vietnam:{{0}}Trương Mỹ Lan

Ongoing

• Hong Kong:{{0}}Jimmy Lai
• Israel:{{0}}Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:{{0}}Specialist Chambers
• Sudan:{{0}}Omar al-Bashir
• Sweden:{{0}}Mohammed Hamo
• United States:{{0}}Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
• ICC:{{0}}Ali Kushayb

Upcoming

• United States:{{0}}Bob Menendez

• Athletics

:* 2024 Diamond League

• Association football

:* 2023–24 UEFA Champions League

:* 2023–24 UEFA Europa League

:* 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League

:* 2024 Copa Libertadores

:* 2024 Copa Sudamericana

:* 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup

:* 2023–24 Premier League

:* 2023–24 La Liga

:* 2023–24 Serie A

:* 2023–24 Bundesliga

:* 2023–24 Ligue 1

:* 2024 Major League Soccer season

:* 2023–24 Women's Super League

:* 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A

• Baseball

:* 2024 MLB season

• Basketball

:* 2023–24 NBA season

• International cricket

:* 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

:*2024 IPL season

• Golf

:* 2024 PGA Tour

:* 2024 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

:* 2023–24 NHL season

:* 2023–24 PWHL season

• Motorsport

:* 2024 Formula One World Championship

:* 2024 MotoGP World Championship

:* 2024 NASCAR Cup Series

:* 2024 IndyCar Series

• Rugby union

:* 2023–24 Premiership Rugby

:* 2023–24 United Rugby Championship

• Tennis

:* 2024 ATP Tour

:* 2024 WTA Tour

• Other sports seasons

:* 2023–24 curling season

:* 2023–24 snooker season

April

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• 30: Paul Auster
• 30: Duane Eddy
• 28: Brian McCardie
• 27: C. J. Sansom
• 25: Marla Adams
• 25: Laurent Cantet
• 24: Bob Cole
• 24: Terry Hill
• 24: Donald Payne Jr.
• 24: Mike Pinder
• 23: Terry Carter
• 23: Ray Chan
• 23: Frank Field
• 23: Helen Vendler
• 21: Terry A. Anderson
• 20: Andrew Davis
• 20: Roman Gabriel
• 20: Lourdes Portillo
• 19: Daniel Dennett
• 18: Mandisa
• 18: Dickey Betts
• 16: Carl Erskine
• 16: Bob Graham
• 15: Whitey Herzog
• 15: Josip Manolić
• 15: Derek Underwood
• 14: Ken Holtzman
• 14: Beverly LaHaye
• 13: Faith Ringgold
• 12: Roberto Cavalli
• 12: Eleanor Coppola
• 12: Robert MacNeil
• 11: Fritz Peterson
• 11: Akebono Tarō
• 11: Park Bo-ram
• 10: Mister Cee
• 10: Trina Robbins
• 10: O. J. Simpson
• {{0}}8: Peter Higgs
• {{0}}8: Ralph Puckett
• {{0}}7: Walid Daqqa
• {{0}}7: Jerry Grote
• {{0}}7: Joe Kinnear
• {{0}}5: C. J. Snare
• {{0}}4: Lynne Reid Banks
• {{0}}4: Thomas Gumbleton
• {{0}}4: Pat Zachry
• {{0}}3: Albert Heath
• {{0}}3: Gaetano Pesce
• {{0}}2: Christopher Durang
• {{0}}2: John Barth
• {{0}}2: Juan Vicente Pérez
• {{0}}2: Maryse Condé
• {{0}}2: John Sinclair
• {{0}}2: Larry Lucchino
• {{0}}1: Lou Conter
• {{0}}1: Anne Innis Dagg
• {{0}}1: Vontae Davis
• {{0}}1: Joe Flaherty
• {{0}}1: Ed Piskor

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Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

:* Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

:* Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

:* Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

:* Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

:* Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

:* Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

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:* Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

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• Somalia

:* Civil war

• Sudan

:* Civil war

Americas

• Ecuador

:* Ecuadorian conflict

• Mexico

:* Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

:* Islamic State–Taliban conflict

:* Republican insurgency

• India

:* Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Indonesia

:* Papua conflict

• Myanmar

:* Civil war

• Pakistan

:* Insurgency in Balochistan

:* Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

:* NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

:* Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Iraqi conflict

:* Islamic State insurgency

• Israel–Hamas war

:* Regional spillover

::* Israel–Hezbollah conflict

::* Red Sea crisis

• Syrian civil war

:* Iran–Israel conflict

:* Turkish intervention

:* U.S.−led intervention

• Turkey

:* PKK insurgency

• Yemeni civil war

:* Saudi−led intervention