Serifo Nhamadjo, Mike Moore, and Janez Stanovnik. In 2021: Gustavo Noboa, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Didier Ratsiraka, Bonfoh Abass, Mamnoon Hussain, Arturo Armando Molina, Hissène Habré, Jorge Sampaio, Abdelkader Bensalah, Kenneth Kaunda, Anerood Jugnauth, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Enrique Bolaños, Roh Tae-woo, Chun Doo-hwan, Benigno Aquino III, Carlos Menem, F. W. de Klerk, James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, Norodom Ranariddh, Kinza Clodumar, and Karolos Papoulias. In 2022: Toshiki Kaifu, Ernest Shonekan, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Christos Sartzetakis, Amos Sawyer, Rupiah Banda, Karl Offmann, Ayaz Mutallibov, Dušan Čkrebić, Mwai Kibaki, Leonid Kravchuk, Stanislav Shushkevich, Romeo Morri, Bujar Nishani, Evaristo Carvalho, Jacob Nena, Shinzo Abe, José Eduardo dos Santos, Luis Echeverría, Francisco Morales Bermúdez, Fidel V. Ramos, Mikhail Gorbachev, Balakh Sher Mazari, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Jiang Zemin, Adolfas Šleževičius, Edgar Savisaar and Pope Benedict XVI. In 2023: Abdelsalam Majali, Constantine II of Greece, Álvaro Colom, Sherif Ismail, Pervez Musharraf, Lubomír Štrougal, Ivan Silayev, Sergey Tereshchenko, Hans Modrow, Ahmed Qurei and Gérard Latortue. Prominent political events Coups Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania World leaders 2020 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023 Assassinations and attempts Prominent assassinations, targeted killings, and assassination attempts include: Disasters Non-natural disasters Aviation General Marine Natural disasters Earthquakes and tsunamis Note: This table is a chronological list of earthquakes reported with 7.5 or greater or that have reported at least 100 fatalities. Tropical cyclones Tornadoes Floods, avalanches, and mudslides Note: This section reports only floods with 200 or more deaths and avalanches and landslides involving 30 or more deaths. Volcanic eruptions Droughts, heat waves, and wildfires Pollution Other natural events Beginning in 2019 until 2022, a huge swarm of desert locusts threatened to engulf massive portions of the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Economics Events 2020 The Brexit withdrawal agreement went into effect at the end of January 2020 with the UK completing its economic withdrawal from the EU at the end of that year. The United States, Mexico, and Canada signed the USMCA agreement, which came into effect on 1 July 2020. 2021 The African Continental Free Trade Area, encompassing 54 of the African Union states comes into effect. Ever Given, a large container ship, runs aground in the Suez Canal for a week causing massive disruption of global trade. El Salvador became the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, after the Legislative Assembly votes 62–84 to pass a bill submitted by President Nayib Bukele classifying the cryptocurrency as such. 2022 The Regional