Portal:Current events/August 2020/Sidebar
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Ongoing events
Business
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
Recent
- August
- 30: Liechtenstein, Referendums
- 30: Montenegro, Parliament
Ongoing
- August
- 12 – 1 September: Bougainville, {{nowrap|President, House of Representatives}}
Upcoming
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
- 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
More details – current sports events
- 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
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|List of ongoing armed conflicts}}
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