WORLD AGENDA
AUGUST 2021

1 Aug 9, Israel: The government’s Civil Administration is set to hear arguments for greenlighting a 3,412-unit West Bank settler building project known as E1. The plan
is likely to complicate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s (left) relations with Washington and his left-wing coalition partners

2 Aug 3, Canada: Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou (right), and her legal team, are set to return to court for three more weeks of hearings in her U.S. extradition case

3 Aug 12, Zambia: The EU has deployed observers for Zambia’s general elections. Opinion polls suggest President Edgar Lungu will receive 44.5% of the vote, with opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema getting 30.3%

4 Aug, Nigeria: Nigeria expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including 3.92 million Oxford/AstraZeneca shots from the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme. An extra 3.93 million doses from either Pfizer/BioNtech or Moderna will be donated by the U.S. government

5 Aug 4, U.S.: Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, turns 40, two months after giving birth to her daughter Lilibet Diana

6 Aug 24-Sep 5, Japan: Pandemic-delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games take place. Slovakia’s Veronika Vadovicova (below) hopes to build on her haul of three Paralympic golds

7 Aug 4-5, U.S.: The Black Hat USA convention in Las Vegas will enable cybersecurity experts to discuss vulnerabilities – including Russian-linked ransomware attacks around the world

8 Aug, Belarus: President Alexander Lukashenko is expected to unveil his final proposals for constitutional change

9 Aug 31, Afghanistan: The withdrawal of the last 3,000 troops formally ends the U.S. mission, which began 20 years ago after the 9/11 terror attacks. President Joe Biden (left) said the U.S. “did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build” and that Afghans alone should determine their future

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Sources: NewsAhead, Julie Mullins
Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images
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