/ 01 / Turkey: The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Grand National Assembly passed a bill approving Finland's accession to NATO On March 23, 2023, Turkey's NTV TV reported that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Turkish Grand National Assembly passed a bill agreeing to Finland's accession to NATO on the same day. According to the regulations, the bill will also be submitted to the loya jirga, and once passed, it will mean that Turkey officially approves Finland's accession to NATO. / 02 / Equatorial Guinea: 8 new cases of Marburg virus infection On 22 March 2023, the WHO Regional Office for Africa announced that 8 new cases of Marburg virus infection were confirmed by testing. / 03 / Ethiopia: Parliament decides to remove TPLF from terrorist organization list On March 22, 2023, the Ethiopian Parliament voted to remove the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) armed forces from the official list of terrorist organizations. / 04 / Germany: Mass public sector strike continues March 23, 2023, and public sector employees in the central German state of Thuringia continue to go on a warning strike over a labor bargaining dispute. (Source: CCPIT Overseas Security Information Technology Economic and Trade Friction Early Warning Point, ICC-iCover Global Security Research Information Database)
