Portal:Current events/January 2024/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Disasters

• Ecuadorian security crisis
• Gaza humanitarian crisis
• Haitian crisis
• Iceland volcanic eruptions
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Argentine monetary crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• Pakistani economic crisis
• South African energy crisis
• Sri Lankan economic crisis
• Turkish economic crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis

Politics

• Guyana–Venezuela border dispute
• Nigerien crisis
• Peruvian political crisis
• South China Sea territorial disputes
• Texas border and immigration enforcement efforts
• United States presidential impeachment inquiry

Protests and strikes

• Israel–Hamas war protests
• United Kingdom industrial disputes and strikes

Weather

• 2023–24 North American winter

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January

• 21: Liechtenstein, Referendums
• 25: Nepal, National Assembly (indirect)
• 26: Tuvalu, Parliament
• 28: Finland, President (1st)

Upcoming

• February

• 04: El Salvador, President, Legislative Assembly
• 07: Azerbaijan, President
• 08: Pakistan, National Assembly
• 11: Finland, President (2nd)
• 14: Indonesia, President, Regional Representative Council,
         House of Representatives

Trials

Recently concluded

• United States:0Jonathan Majors
• Vatican City:0Giovanni Angelo Becciu

Ongoing

• Hong Kong:0Jimmy Lai
• Israel:0Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• Sudan:0Omar al-Bashir
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz

Sport

• Association football

• 2023–24 UEFA Champions League
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa League
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
• 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2023–24 Premier League
• 2023–24 La Liga
• 2023–24 Serie A
• 2023–24 Bundesliga
• 2023–24 Ligue 1
• 2023–24 Women's Super League

• American football

• 2023–24 NFL playoffs
• 2023–24 NCAA football bowl games

• Basketball

• 2023–24 NBA season
• 2023–24 EuroLeague
• 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2024 PGA Tour
• 2024 PGA Tour Champions
• 2024 European Tour
• 2024 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2023–24 NHL season
• 2024 PWHL season

• Rugby union

• 2023–24 European Rugby Champions Cup
• 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

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

January

• 30: Chita Rivera
• 26: Jimy Williams
• 24: Carl Andre
• 24: Harry Connick Sr.
• 24: Jesse Jane
• 24: N. Scott Momaday
• 24: Selwyn Muru
• 23: Frank Farian
• 23: Charles Fried
• 23: Charles Osgood
• 23: Melanie Safka
• 22: Dexter King
• 22: Arno Allan Penzias
• 22: Gigi Riva
• 21: Roger Rogerson
• 20: Norman Jewison
• 19: Jack Burke Jr.
• 19: Ewa Podleś
• 19: Marlena Shaw
• 19: Mary Weiss
• 18: Luis Vasquez
• 17: Shawnacy Barber
• 17: Tony Lloyd
• 17: Dejan Milojević
• 16: Peter Schickele
• 15: Shih Ming-teh
• 14: Norm Snead
• 13: Joyce Randolph
• 13: Tom Shales
• 12: Bill Hayes
• 11: Ed Broadbent
• 11: Annie Nightingale
• 10: Bud Harrelson
• 09: Edward Jay Epstein
• 08: Adan Canto
• 08: J. P. R. Williams
• 07: Joan Acocella
• 07: Franz Beckenbauer
• 06: Roy Calne
• 05: Joseph Lelyveld
• 05: Brian McConnachie
• 05: Mário Zagallo
• 04: Glynis Johns
• 04: David Soul
• 03: Derek Draper
• 02: Alexis Smith
• 02: Saleh al-Arouri
• 02: Sartaj Aziz
• 01: Camila Batmanghelidjh
• 01: Lynja
• 01: Peter Magubane
• 01: Basdeo Panday
• 01: Frank Ryan
• 01: Sidney M. Wolfe

Ongoing conflicts

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
• Nigerian bandit conflict

• Sahel insurgency

• Burkina Faso  •  Niger  •  Mali

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Colombia

• Colombian conflict

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• 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

• Foreign involvement

Middle East

• Iraqi conflict

• Islamic State insurgency

• Israel and Gaza

• Israel–Hamas war

• Israel and Lebanon

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict

• Red Sea crisis

• U.S.–Houthi conflict

• Syrian civil war

• Foreign involvement

• Iran–Israel conflict
• Turkish intervention
• U.S.−led intervention

• Turkey

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict

• Yemeni civil war

• Saudi−led intervention

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2024 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain