Portal:Current events/August 2021/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Disasters
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2020–21 European windstorm season
- 2020–2021 H5N8 outbreak
- 2021 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2021 Pacific typhoon season
- Madagascar food crisis
- Water crisis in Iran
- Yemeni famine
Politics
- Afghan peace process
- Arab protests
- Belarusian protests
- Belarus−European Union border crisis
- Brazilian protests
- Colombian tax reform protests
- Cuban protests
- Eswatini protests
- Haitian protests
- Indian farmers' protests
- Iranian protests
- Jersey dispute
- Libyan peace process
- Myanmar protests
- Nicaraguan protests
- Nigerian protests
- Peruvian crisis
- Sudanese protests
- Tigrayan peace process
- Thai protests
- Tunisian political crisis
- United States racial unrest (Stop Asian Hate)
- Venezuelan presidential crisis
Upcoming
Recently concluded
- Belarus: Viktar Babaryka
- China: Sun Dawu, Michael Spavor
- India: Shashi Tharoor
- Indonesia: Juliari Batubara, Edhy Prabowo
- Russia: Lyubov Sobol
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Switzerland: Alieu Kosiah
- Tonga: ʻAkosita Lavulavu
- United Kingdom: Apsana Begum
- United States: Stephen Calk, Ed Buck
Ongoing
- Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Belarus: Sergei Tikhanovsky
- Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
- France: Nicolas Sarkozy
- India: Disha Ravi
- Indonesia: Nurdin Abdullah
- Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malta: Yorgen Fenech
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: R. Kelly, Elizabeth Holmes
- International: Ali Kushayb, The Gambia v. Myanmar
Upcoming
- Canada: Raj Grewal
- Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
- Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
- Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Meng Wanzhou, Ghislaine Maxwell, Allen Weisselberg
- Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
- Association football
- Women's association football
- Baseball
- Cricket
- Golf
- Motorsport
- Rugby league
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
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August
- 31: Geronimo
- 29: Ed Asner
- 29: Ron Bushy
- 29: Lee "Scratch" Perry
- 29: Jacques Rogge
- 28: Jiang Chunyun
- 28: Teresa Żylis-Gara
- 27: Edmond H. Fischer
- 27: Akis Tsochatzopoulos
- 25: Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini
- 25: Gunilla Bergström
- 25: Robin Miller
- 24: Hissène Habré
- 24: Charlie Watts
- 23: Elizabeth Blackadder
- 23: Tom Flynn
- 23: Jean-Luc Nancy
- 23: Rosita Quintana
- 23: Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi
- 22: Andrzej Schinzel
- 21: Nickolas Davatzes
- 21: Don Everly
- 21: Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein
- 21: Anthony Scotto
- 20: Tom T. Hall
- 19: Bill Freehan
- 19: Chuck Close
- 19: Peter Harding
- 19: Sonny Chiba
- 19: Michael Cullen
- 18: Joseph L. Galloway
- 18: Jill Murphy
- 16: Sean Lock
- 16: Lucille Times
- 15: Paul Mitchell
- 15: Joe Walton
- 15: Abdelhamid Brahimi
- 15: Gerd Müller
- 14: Carlos Correia
- 14: Fez Whatley
- 13: Nanci Griffith
- 13: James Hormel
- 13: Leon Kopelman
- 13: Carolyn S. Shoemaker
- 12: Gino Strada
- 12: Dominic DeNucci
- 12: Una Stubbs
- 10: Neal Conan
- 10: Tony Esposito
- 10: Maki Kaji
- 10: Eduardo Martínez Somalo
- 9: Lester Bird
- 9: Cameron Burrell
- 9: Alex Cord
- 9: Pat Hitchcock
- 9: Bob Jenkins
- 9: Sergei Kovalev
- 9: Chucky Thompson
- 8: Bobby Bowden
- 8: Jaan Kaplinski
- 8: Walter Yetnikoff
- 7: Brad Allan
- 7: Trevor Moore
- 7: Markie Post
- 7: Jane Withers
- 6: Herbert Schlosser
- 5: Brian Henderson
- 5: Yevhen Marchuk
- 5: Richard Trumka
- 4: Razzy Bailey
- 4: Bobby Eaton
- 4: Graham McRae
- 4: J. R. Richard
- 3: Jody Hamilton
- 3: Arthur Dion Hanna
- 3: Kelli Hand
- 3: Antonio Pennacchi
- 3: Vitaly Shishov
- 2: Elias John Kwandikwa
- 2: Dave Severance
Africa
- Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Niger, and Tunisia
- Angola
- Cameroon
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Ethiopia
- Ethiopia and Sudan
- Ghana
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Senegal
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- War in Darfur
- South Kordofan conflict
- Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
- Tunisia
- Western Sahara
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
- Paraguay
Asia-Pacific
- Afghanistan
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Ukraine
- Ireland and the UK
- Turkey
Global
Middle East
- Egypt
- Iran and the Persian Gulf
- Iraq
- Iraq and Syria (map)
- Israel and Gaza
- Israel and Syria
- Syria
- Yemen and Saudi Arabia
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