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This article covers daily news and events in March 2021 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Monday 1st March 2021

• Bern / Switzerland : Start of the spring session of the Federal Parliament (until March 19).
• Paris / France : Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to three years in prison for bribery and illicit influence. Two years of this will be suspended. However, he will probably not have to go to jail, but can serve the sentence with electronic surveillance at home. Sarkozy's long-time lawyer Thierry Herzog and lawyer Gilbert Azibert are each sentenced to three years' imprisonment, also with two years probation.
• Paris / France : Josef Aschbacher takes over the position of the previous ESA Director General Johann-Dietrich Wörner .

Tuesday March 2nd 2021

• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : Three employees of a television station are killed in a terrorist attack in eastern Afghanistan. The terrorist organization IS takes responsibility for this attack.
• Jilib / Somalia : Fighters of the al-Shabaab militia execute five people in a public execution in front of hundreds of spectators in Jilib, southern Somalia, who allegedly had carried out espionage activities for the USA or the Somali secret service.

Wednesday March 3, 2021

• Budapest / Hungary : Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announces the resignation of his Fidesz party from the parliamentary group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament .

Thursday March 4th 2021

• Djibouti / Djibouti : Shortly after the departure of a completely overloaded boat for Yemen, people smugglers throw 80 refugees overboard, at least 20 of them drown.

Friday March 5th 2021

• Baghdad / Iraq : With Francis , a Pope visits Iraq for the first time . First there are meetings with the Prime Minister and the Head of State, followed by meetings with representatives of the local Church and civil society. The visit is overshadowed by the second wave of the Covid pandemic that is currently plaguing Iraq. There is a curfew in Iraq for the time of the Pope's visit.
• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : A doctor and worker in a gypsum factory are killed in two terrorist attacks in eastern Afghanistan. The terrorist attacks are attributed to the terrorist organization IS .

Saturday 6th March 2021

• Ma'rib / Yemen : At least 120 people are killed in the fighting for the city of Ma'rib. Ma'rib is the last major city in northern Yemen that is controlled by the internationally recognized government. From Iran supported Huthi -Rebellen try in a week-long offensive to take the geo-strategically important city.
• Najaf / Iraq : During his visit to Iraq, Pope Francis meets the Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali as-Sistani . The focus of the conversation was to highlight the importance of cooperation and friendship between the religious communities as well as the assurance of as-Sistanis to work for Christian citizens like all Iraqis to live in peace and security, with all their constitutional rights. The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I. Sako , was also present at the meeting. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi declares March 6th as a national day of tolerance and coexistence as a public holiday. The Pope then travels to the plain of Ur for an interreligious meeting , from which, according to Old Testament tradition, Abraham originated.
• Oberstdorf / Germany : The German ski jumpers Pius Paschke , Severin Freund , Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger win the world championship in team jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2021 .

Sunday March 7th 2021

• Bata / Equatorial Guinea : At least 105 people are killed and 615 injured in several dynamite explosions at a military base in Central African Equatorial Guinea. According to Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema , negligent use of explosives is the cause.
• Berlin / Germany : The CDU MP Nikolas Löbel announces in the course of the " mask affair " to withdraw from politics.
• Bern / Switzerland : Federal referendum on the free trade agreement with Indonesia and the ban on veiling in public.
• Munich / Germany : Georg Nüßlein announces his resignation from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in connection with the "mask affair".
• Sanaa / Yemen : Over 80 migrants are killed in a camp fire.

Monday March 8, 2021

• Beirut / Lebanon : In the event of mass protests, the entrances to the capital Beirut are blocked. The reason for the protests is the decline of the national currency, the Lebanese pound , which leads to rising consumer prices, mass unemployment and the delay in the formation of a new government.
• Berlin / Germany : As a result of the "mask affair", Nikolas Löbel resigns from the Bundestag with immediate effect, and the CDU district association Mannheim announces that Löbel has resigned from the CDU "with immediate effect".
• Brasília / Brazil : The Brazilian Supreme Court overturns four corruption judgments against former President Lula da Silva .
• Munich / Germany : Georg Nüßlein declares that he is leaving the CSU in connection with the “mask affair”.
• Nicosia / Cyprus : Israel , Greece and Cyprus sign an agreement to lay an underwater power cable in three sections between Israel and Cyprus, Cyprus and Crete , and Crete and mainland Greece. It will represent the longest and deepest submarine cable and serve to exchange electricity from renewable energies. The project costs are estimated at 750 million euros. This will connect Cyprus to the European electricity market.
• Sirte / Libya : After years of division into a unity government in Tripoli and a counter-government in Tobruk , the Libyan parliament, elected in 2014, is meeting for the first time in a joint session in Sirte. On the agenda is the vote on a national unity government to be led by Abdul Hamid Dbeiba .
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : After the death of the incumbent Prime Minister, President Alassane Ouattara appoints his confidante Patrick Achi as the new acting Prime Minister.

Tuesday March 9, 2021

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The national coach of the German men's national soccer team , Joachim Löw , announces that he will step down as head coach after the European Championship in 2021 after 15 years in office.
• Moscow / Russia : The space agencies of Russia and China , Roskosmos and CNSA , sign a cooperation agreement to build a jointly operated lunar station. According to Roskosmos, this should serve experimental research on the lunar surface and / or orbit of the moon and be open to all interested states and international partners.

Wednesday March 10, 2021

• Lausanne / Switzerland : Thomas Bach has been re-elected as President of the International Olympic Committee for a further four years .
• Melbourne / Australia : The government of the Australian state of Victoria appoints a truth commission to investigate violence against the indigenous population from the end of the 18th to the end of the 20th century. The goal is a treaty in which the relationship between the Aborigines and the state is to be recorded.
• Sirte / Libya : The MPs vote with 132 votes out of 178 for the national unity government, which comprises 27 ministries and is led by Abdul Hamid Dbeiba . The post of defense minister is still open; this swearing-in is to be made up for in another parliamentary session in Benghazi .
• Strasbourg / France : In a major fire in a data center , servers and data centers are destroyed and damaged, which affects the services of numerous companies. Millions of websites in the .fr domain are going offline.
• Washington, DC / United States : After the Senate, the House of Representatives also approves an economic stimulus package worth 1.9 trillion US dollars to deal with the corona crisis.

Thursday March 11th 2021

• Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : After a successful parliamentary vote, a referendum on a constitutional amendment is to be held on April 11th. According to this, the incumbent president would be granted more rights, including the right to run again after the current term of office expires.
• Cairo / Egypt : A fire in a textile factory leaves at least 20 dead and 24 injured.
• Beijing / China : The members of the Chinese People's Congress approve a controversial reform of the electoral law in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with one abstention and no vote against. The committee for the election of a Hong Kong head of government and the parliament are to be enlarged and the special administrative area is to be governed by "patriots". A “review committee” is supposed to determine who is considered “patriotic”. It is feared that in the future only people who are loyal to the line can be members of parliament. The EU sees the reform as a violation of Hong Kong's autonomy rights.

Friday March 12th 2021

• Kaduna / Nigeria : 30 students and several employees are kidnapped in an armed attack on a school in Mando, Kaduna state .

Saturday March 13th 2021

• Almaty / Kazakhstan : When a military aircraft approaching Almaty Airport crashes, four occupants are killed and two survive injured.
• Herat / Afghanistan : Eight people are killed and 50 injured when a car bomb explodes near a police station in Herat.
• La Paz / Bolivia : Former interim president Jeanine Áñez is arrested in Bolivia on charges of terrorism and rioting. Investigations are underway against her because of an alleged coup against her predecessor Evo Morales .

Sunday March 14th 2021

• Hanau / Germany : In the mayor election in 2021, Claus Kaminsky ( SPD ) was elected mayor of the city of Hanau for the fourth time .
• Mainz / Germany : State election in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Stuttgart / Germany : State election in Baden-Württemberg
• Wiesbaden / Germany : Local elections in Hesse

Monday March 15, 2021

Deb Haaland (2019)

• Vatican City : The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declares that the Catholic Church has no authority to bless homosexual partnerships because homosexual couples are not in accordance with divine will.
• Washington, DC / United States : Deb Haaland is the first time an Indian woman has been confirmed as federal minister by the Senate. She holds the post of Interior Minister in the Biden cabinet .

Tuesday March 16, 2021

• Aden / Yemen : Angry demonstrators storm the presidential palace in Aden, where the country's internationally recognized government is based. Several cabinet members and Prime Minister Maeen Abdul Malek are evacuated to a nearby military building by Yemeni and Saudi security forces. The reason for the storming is the anger over the largely lacking state administrative functions, the desolate living conditions and the deterioration of the currency.
• Tillabéri / Niger : In an armed attack in the Tillabéri region in southwestern Niger, 58 civilians are killed while driving in a convoy from a market to their home villages. Attacks in villages kill more people and destroy storage facilities.

Wednesday March 17th 2021

• Ankara / Turkey : The General Prosecutor's Office of the Supreme Court in Turkey has applied for the opposition party HDP to be banned by the Constitutional Court . The Foreign Office as well as the Council of Europe and the United States criticize the approach and question the rule of law in Turkey.
• Gao / Mali : 33 soldiers and 20 attackers are killed in an attack on a base of the Malian armed forces in Tessit in the Gao region .

Thursday March 18, 2021

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : After a review of the AstraZeneca vaccine against Sars-CoV-2 , it was declared "effective and safe". The administration of the vaccine in Germany will continue from March 19th. The use of this vaccine has been suspended in several European countries because there were suspicions that the vaccine could cause sinus vein thrombosis .
• Anchorage / United States : The first meeting between high-ranking representatives from the USA and those from China in Alaska is overshadowed by mutual accusations. While the USA criticizes the suppression of the Uyghurs and the restrictive policy towards the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Taiwan , China says the United States is far from representing “global public opinion”.
• Hamburg / Germany : In response to the abuse report by the Archdiocese of Cologne, Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Heße offers the Pope his resignation. Heße was head of personnel and vicar general in Cologne. The published report had shown him a total of eleven breaches of duty in dealing with sexualised violence.
• Cologne / Germany : The report on dealing with sexualised violence in the Archdiocese of Cologne is presented to the public. It was anticipated with great anticipation, as the first expert opinion initially commissioned had been withheld due to methodological deficiencies, which had led to considerable criticism of Archbishop Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki . While Woelki was unable to prove any breaches of duty, the report weighs heavily on the late Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner . As a first reaction, Cardinal Woelki released the also burdened Dominikus Schwaderlapp (auxiliary bishop) and Günter Assenmacher (official of the archbishopric) from their duties.
• Madrid / Spain : Spain is the fifth country to legalize active euthanasia after the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada .

Friday March 19, 2021

Samia Suluhu (2011)

• Dar es Salaam / Tanzania : After the death of John Magufuli , the previous Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan is sworn in as the first female President of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. After being sworn in, she holds a military parade.
• Minsk / Belarus : Ruler Aljaksandr Lukashenka gives "another president" the opportunity to fill his post during a factory visit in Minsk. Potential candidates are former Interior Minister Yuri Karayeu and former Health Minister Vladimir Karanek. Meanwhile, the non-party opposition leader Svyatlana Zichanouskaya, who lives in exile, has launched an electronic voting process to negotiate the country's political crisis. Talks with the government are to take place in May.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : Near the mountain Fagradalsfjall on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland, the eruption in the Krýsuvík volcanic system begins in an uninhabited area with a crevasse eruption . No significant adverse effects on air traffic are expected.
• Worldwide: Global climate strike

Saturday 20th March 2021

• Ankara / Turkey : On the night of March 20, a decree by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was announced in the official gazette , which contained Turkey's withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence with immediate effect . This convention , also known for short as the Istanbul Convention, was signed on May 11, 2011 by thirteen member states of the Council of Europe in Istanbul. At the time, Turkey was also there in the person of R. T. Erdoğan, who was then Prime Minister of the country. The Turkish parliament was the first of the signatory states to ratify it on March 14, 2012, but according to the Turkish women's rights organization “We will stop feminicide” it was never applied and last year alone, over 300 women were murdered, mostly by men from their social environment.
• Simferopol / Crimea : The Russian state expropriates all non-Russian landowners on the Crimean peninsula, which is under Russian control.
• Tokyo / Japan : Due to the corona pandemic, the Summer Olympics are to be held this year without foreign spectators. The result is considerable financial losses for the organizers due to the reimbursement of tickets already paid for and in tourism due to the absence of international guests.

Sunday March 21, 2021

• Aleppo / Syria : Atareb hospital is hit in an attack by forces supported by the Syrian government in a rebel stronghold. Seven civilians are killed and 14 doctors working there are injured. According to information from the rebels, Russian fighter planes also shot at several training camps.
• Ankara / Turkey : After the dismissal of Naci Ağbal , President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appoints the economic columnist Şahap Kavcıoğlu as the new head of the central bank. Turkey is suffering from an economic crisis, the inflation rate is 15%. Staple foods in particular are becoming more expensive, and public resentment is growing. A few days ago the key interest rate was raised against the will of the head of state.
• Brazzaville / Republic of the Congo : incumbent Denis Sassou-Nguesso is the favorite in the presidential election . His main rival Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas is sick with Covid-19 and could be flown to France . The Ministry of the Interior allows the Catholic Church with 1,100 people to observe the election; international election observers are not permitted.
• Sydney / Australia : After days of heavy rain, flooding occurs on Australia's east coast, which leads to the evacuation of several villages. The state of New South Wales is particularly affected . The authorities classify the situation as a natural disaster.
• Tahoua / Niger : With a massacre allegedly the IS related terrorists killed at least 137 people, as in the three villages Tahoua region are attacked.

Monday March 22, 2021

• Boulder / United States : Ten people are killed in a shooting in a supermarket in the US state of Colorado . Meanwhile, calls for stricter gun laws are getting louder in the USA.
• Bristol / United Kingdom : Protests against a new law that gives the police in England and Wales more authority to demonstrate, turn into serious rioting and rioting. A police station is attacked in Bristol and police vehicles are set on fire.
• Brussels / Belgium : For the first time since 1989, the EU has imposed sanctions on Chinese individuals for violating human rights violations and freedom of expression and demonstration . As a result, the Chinese side also imposed sanctions on individuals from the EU.
• Cox's Bazar / Bangladesh : A major fire in a refugee camp for members of the Rohingya displaced from Myanmar claims at least 15 dead and 400 people missing. 45,000 residents of the refugee camp are now homeless. The cause of the fire is not known.
• Riyadh / Saudi Arabia : In the conflict with Huthi -Rebellen in the Yemeni civil war , the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposes a wide Yemen ceasefire under UN supervision.
• Stockholm / Sweden : Start of the World Figure Skating Championships 2021 (until March 28)

Tuesday March 23, 2021

The container ship "Ever Given" blocks the Suez Canal.

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Chancellor and the Prime Ministers of the federal states decide to extend the three-month lockdown to combat the corona pandemic until April 18, 2021. In addition, a "rest break" is decided over Easter, for which this year's Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday are designated as rest days and from 1st to 5th April private get-togethers should be limited to five people from two households (not counting children up to 14 years of age; couples with separate apartments count as one household). Public gatherings should be prohibited during this time and food retailers should only be open on Holy Saturday. On April 12, 2021, the group wants to discuss the topic again.
• Chaman / Pakistan : A car bomb exploded in Chaman in the Balochistan province near the border with Afghanistan , killing three people and injuring 13 others. The Pakistani Taliban movement are committed to the terrorist attack.
• Jerusalem / Israel : Election to the 24th Knesset
• London / United Kingdom : The painting Game Changer by British artist Banksy is auctioned for the equivalent of 19.4 million euros. The proceeds will go to the National Health Service .
• Suez / Egypt : The Ever Given , a wrecked container ship flying the Panamanian flag, blocks the Suez Canal north of Suez.

Wednesday March 24th 2021

• Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : In the conflict over the Tigray region , Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed confirms for the first time the deployment of Eritrean troops in northern Ethiopia to combat the rebels of the military arm of the Tigray People's Liberation Front . However, the Eritrean units are expected to withdraw as soon as the Ethiopian armed forces regain control of the border region.
• Berlin / Germany : The “Easter rest” agreed the day before by the Federal Chancellor and the Prime Ministers of the federal states . April 2021 should apply and as a measure against the Covid 19 pandemic was decided will be withdrawn. The other points that were decided in the Bund-Länder-Round the day before are not affected by the withdrawal.
• Bratislava / Slovakia : Foreign Minister Ivan Korčok and Education Minister Branislav Gröhling resign in the dispute over corona crisis management. The dispute has sparked over the independent procurement of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V by Prime Minister Igor Matovič . President Zuzana Čaputová calls on the Prime Minister to resign in the course of restructuring the government.
• Brussels / Belgium : In Belgium, measures to combat the Covid 19 pandemic are to be expanded, according to Prime Minister Alexander De Croo . After government consultations, De Croo announced that a four-week “Easter break” was planned, during which non-systemically important businesses are only allowed to receive customers by appointment. B. Hairdressers - have to close. Outdoor meetings should be limited to four people (wearing a mask). Schools are also to be closed, kindergartens remain open.
• Vatican City : Due to financial losses due to the corona crisis, Pope Francis is cutting the salaries of cardinals and other dignitaries by up to ten percent.
• Vienna / Austria : Due to the threat of overloading the health system, measures to combat the Covid 19 pandemic are being expanded in Vienna and two federal states of Austria. From 1st to 6th April there should also be curfews during the day. Museums and shops that are not relevant to basic needs have to close. The apartment may essentially only be left for shopping and sporting activities. Service companies “close to the body” (e.g. hairdressers) have to close. The schools are to be closed for a week after Easter.

Thursday March 25, 2021

• Andorra la Vella / Andorra : With King Felipe VI. A Spanish head of state visits neighboring Andorra for the first time .

Friday March 26th 2021

• Chittagong / Bangladesh : During protests by Islamist groups against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to mark the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence in Chittagong, the police shot at least four people.
• Geneva / Switzerland : As part of the Swiss Film Prize 2021 , sister of Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond will be awarded in the categories of Best Fiction Film , Best Screenplay , Best Supporting Actress (Marthe Keller), Best Cinematography and Best Editing .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The European Broadcasting Union, as the organizer of this year's Eurovision Song Contest , excludes Belarus from participating in the competition because the planned contribution violates the rules of participation. The government in Minsk criticizes the exclusion as "politically motivated".
• Tahta / Egypt : When a train of the Egyptian State Railways collided with a train in front, in which someone pulled the emergency brake between the stations of El Maragha and Tahta, at least 19 people died and 185 were injured.

Saturday March 27th 2021

• Istanbul / Turkey : Thousands of Turkish women protest in Istanbul against the planned withdrawal from a convention for the protection of women by the head of state Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
• Cairo / Egypt : At least 18 people are killed in the collapse of an apartment building in the Cairo district of el-Salam.
• Kandahar / Afghanistan : Three security officers are killed in the explosion of a car bomb in the province of Kandahar . In the south and in the middle of Afghanistan there are clashes between Afghan security guards and the Taliban. The Taliban accuse security guards of attacking civilians in central Afghanistan.
• Pemba / Mozambique : After violent fighting, jihadists with ties to the Islamic State terrorist network take control of the coastal city of Palma in the province of Cabo Delgado . Numerous civilians were killed and thousands of people are on the run.
• Yangon / Myanmar : Protests against the military junta kill 114 people, including children.

Sunday March 28, 2021

• Juba / South Sudan : Representatives of the Sudanese government and representatives of rebel groups from South Kordofan sign an agreement in Juba in the presence of the South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit , which is supposed to guarantee religious freedom and the separation of religion and state in Sudan.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 20 civilians are killed in the province of Khost in armed clashes between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban . Three policemen are killed in a bomb explosion in Laghman province .
• Makassar / Indonesia : 20 people were injured in a suicide attack in front of a Catholic church on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi . The two alleged assassins were killed in the explosion.

Monday 29 March 2021

• Geneva / Switzerland : In a report to be published on March 30, 2021, the World Health Organization assumes that the original transfer of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to humans took place directly or indirectly through a bat. Indirect transmission (through another animal serving as an intermediate host ) is most likely , but direct transmission without an intermediate host is also possible. The report is based on scientific research carried out by an international team in Wuhan in January and February 2021 .
• Suez / Egypt : The Ever Given , the wrecked container ship which has been blocking the Suez Canal north of Suez since March 23, 2021 , has been secured and floatable again, according to the rescue service provider. According to estimates by shipowners and economists, the accident will have a significant impact on world trade even after the salvage.
• Yamoussoukro / Ivory Coast : Attacks on two military posts near the border with Burkina Faso in northern Ivory Coast kill three soldiers and steal numerous weapons.

Tuesday March 30th 2021

• La Sarraz / Eclépens / Switzerland : The protest camp of environmental activists on the Mormont, which has existed since last October to protest against the expansion of the quarry there, is being cleared by the police.

Wednesday March 31, 2021

See also

• Nekrolog March 2021 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March

Web links

Commons : March 2021  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published March 2021  - News

Individual evidence

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