Portal:Current events/May 2022/Sidebar

Disasters

• 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

Economics

• 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

Politics

• 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

Recent

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

Upcoming

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

Recently concluded

• 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

Ongoing

• 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

Upcoming

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

• 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

May

Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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