Portal:Current events/2024 March 31

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2024 Ecuadorian conflict
  • Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (NOS)
• Haitian crisis
  • Canada deploys 70 members of its armed forces to Jamaica to train peacekeepers for a future intervention in Haiti. (CBC News)
• Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree for a larger than normal spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for military service. (CNBC) (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The New York Times reports that private records for millions of AT&T customers have been affected by a data breach and leaked onto the dark web. (The New York Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 France floods
  • The town of Montmorillon in Nouvelle-Aquitaine is hit by severe flooding following heavy rains. (Sky News)
• An ongoing severe drought in southern Africa causes around 20 million people to experience hunger. (AP) (The Independent)

Law and crime

• In the largest heist in city history, $30 million is stolen from a GardaWorld money storage facility in Sylmar, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Los Angeles Times) (KABC-TV) (CNN)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Turkish local elections
  • 2024 Istanbul mayoral election
    • Ekrem İmamoğlu is re-elected as mayor of Istanbul. (The New York Times)
  • Voters in Turkey go to the polls for their local elections. (France 24)
• Visa policy of the Schengen Area
  • Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union. (France 24)