Portal:Current events/May 2022/Sidebar



 Ongoing events

Disasters Economics Politics
 * Climate crisis
 * COVID-19 pandemic
 * Opioid epidemic
 * 2021–22 Australian region cyclone season
 * 2021–22 European windstorm season
 * 2020–2022 H5N8 outbreak
 * 2022 monkeypox outbreak
 * 2022 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
 * 2022 Pacific typhoon season
 * 2022 Pacific hurricane season
 * 2021–22 South Pacific cyclone season
 * 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions
 * Madagascar famine
 * Yemeni famine
 * 2020–present global chip shortage
 * 2021–2022 global energy crisis
 * 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis
 * 2021–2022 inflation surge
 * 2022 food crises
 * 2022 United States infant formula shortage
 * Lebanese liquidity crisis
 * Russian financial crisis
 * Sri Lankan economic and food crisis
 * Turkish currency and debt crisis
 * Belarus−European Union border crisis
 * Brazilian protests
 * Malaysian political crisis
 * Myanmar protests
 * Nicaraguan protests
 * Nigerian protests
 * Peruvian crisis
 * Sri Lankan protests
 * Tigrayan peace process
 * Thai protests
 * Tunisian political crisis
 * Ukrainian refugee crisis
 * Venezuelan presidential crisis

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 Elections and referendums Recent


 * May
 * 21: Australia, Senate, House of Representatives
 * 23: Albania, President (indirect, 2nd)
 * 29: Colombia, President (1st)
 * 30: Albania, President (indirect, 3rd)

Upcoming

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 * June
 * 1: Denmark, Referendum
 * 5: Kazakhstan, Constitutional referendum
 * 11–24: Papua New Guinea, National Assembly
 * 12: France, National Assembly (1st)
 * 12: Italy, Referendum

 Trials

Recently concluded Ongoing Upcoming
 * China: Shadeed Abdulmateen
 * Turkey: Osman Kavala
 * United Kingdom: Ali Harbi Ali, Imran Ahmad Khan, Boris Becker
 * United States: Michael Sussmann, El Shafee Elsheikh, Roger Ng
 * Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
 * Bolivia: Jeanine Áñez
 * France: Brussels Islamic State
 * Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
 * Italy: Matteo Salvini
 * Kosovo: Specialist Chambers
 * Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
 * Malta: Yorgen Fenech
 * Philippines: Leila de Lima
 * Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
 * Sweden: Hamid Nouri
 * United States: Sunny Balwani
 * Vatican City: Giovanni Angelo Becciu
 * ICC: Ali Kushayb


 * Canada: Peter Nygård
 * Nigeria: Nnamdi Kanu
 * United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Steve Bannon

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Sport
 * Association football
 * 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
 * 2022 MLS season
 * 2022 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
 * Women's association football
 * 2022 NWSL season


 * Baseball
 * 2022 MLB season
 * Basketball
 * 2022 NBA Playoffs
 * 2022 WNBA 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


 * Golf
 * 2022 PGA Tour Champions
 * 2021–22 PGA Tour
 * 2022 Ladies European Tour
 * 2022 European Tour
 * 2022 LPGA Tour
 * Ice hockey
 * 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs


 * Motorsport
 * 2022 Formula One World Championship
 * 2021–22 Formula E World Championship
 * Rugby league
 * 2022 NRL season


 * Rugby union
 * 2021–22 Premiership Rugby
 * 2021–22 United Rugby Championship
 * 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season


 * Tennis
 * 2022 ATP Tour
 * 2022 WTA Tour
 * Other sports seasons
 * 2022 International cricket season

More details – current sports events

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 Recent deaths

May


 * Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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 Ongoing conflicts

Global


 * War on terror

Africa


 * Angola
 * Cabinda War
 * Burkina Faso
 * Jihadist insurgency in Burkina Faso
 * 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
 * Ethiopia
 * Tigray War (spillover)
 * Oromo conflict
 * Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
 * Ethiopia and Sudan
 * Ethiopian–Sudanese 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
 * Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)

Americas


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

Asia-Pacific


 * Afghanistan
 * Panjshir conflict
 * Islamic State–Taliban conflict
 * India
 * Insurgency in Northeast India
 * Assam separatist movements
 * Insurgency in Manipur
 * Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
 * 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
 * Ireland and the UK
 * Dissident Irish republican campaign
 * Turkey
 * Kurdish–Turkish conflict
 * Ukraine
 * Russo-Ukrainian War
 * 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * War in Donbas

Middle East


 * Egypt
 * Sinai insurgency
 * Iran and the Persian Gulf
 * Iran–Israel proxy conflict
 * Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
 * Sistan and Baluchestan insurgency
 * Kurdish separatism in Iran
 * Iraq
 * Iraqi conflict
 * Iranian intervention in Iraq
 * Iraq and Syria (map)
 * International military intervention against ISIL
 * Israel and Palestine
 * 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

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

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