Portal:Current events/2019 March 17

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;Disasters and accidents

• 2019 Jayapura flood and landslide
• At least 73 people have been killed in flash floods in the province of Papua, Indonesia. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47602836 (BBC News)]
• President of Mozambique Filipe Nyusi suggests the death toll of Cyclone Idai could reach over one thousand. The current official toll stands at 84. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47609676 (BBC News)]

;Politics and elections

• 2019 Slovak presidential election
• Progressive Slovakia candidate Zuzana Čaputová, who ran on an anti-corruption campaign against the backdrop of Ján Kuciak's murder, wins the first round of Slovakia's presidential election with 40.5% of the vote while the ruling Direction – Social Democracy Party's candidate Maroš Šefčovič receives 18.6% of the vote. As no candidate reached 50%+1 votes in the first round, Čaputová and Šefčovič will take part in a second round on March 30, 2019. The ruling Direction – Social Democracy Party suffers its worst result since its founding in 1999. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-slovakia-election-president/anti-graft-campaigner-wins-first-round-of-slovak-presidential-vote-idUSKCN1QW2Z3 (Reuters)] [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/17/slovakia-pro-eu-zuzana-caputova-wins-first-round-of-presidential-election (The Guardian)] [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47599946 (BBC News)] [http://www.volbysr.sk/en/data01.html (Slovakia's Election Commission)]
• 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• Kirsten Gillibrand 2020 presidential campaign
• U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York formally announces she is officially running for the Democratic Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/us/politics/gillibrand-2020-announce.html (The New York Times)]

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