Rwanda
A well-known critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been found beheaded in neighboring Uganda. Robert Kabera, a 50-year-old former Rwandan army sergeant major, claimed asylum in Uganda in 2020 after he was accused of sexual assault, a charge he said was politically motivated. Kabera had also been well-known as a musician in Rwanda and had a YouTube channel with 144,000 subscribers on which, since fleeing to Uganda, he regularly criticized Kagame’s government. Police said on Monday that Kabera’s body was discovered by locals on the outskirts of the capital Kampala. But “the head, up to now, is still missing,” Superintendent of Police Lydia Tumushabe told AP. Opponents of Kagame have been killed outside Rwanda before. In 2014, Patrick Karegeya, a former intelligence chief, was found dead in South Africa, where he lived in exile. At the time, Kagame made comments widely interpreted as both an admission and a warning. "Any person alive who may be plotting against Rwanda, whoever they are, will pay the price. Whoever it is, it is a matter of time," he said. Kagame subsequently denied the government had any involvement. Rwandan authorities have yet to comment on the discovery of Kabera’s body.
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Gaza
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said it will be forced to stop giving monthly food rations to about 500,000 people in Gaza due to a cash shortfall. WFP said it got less than half as much funding for its Palestinian operations in 2026 as in previous years and that it was reducing the number of recipients of monthly assistance from 1.6 million to 1.1 million people. “It's a year into the agreement of this ceasefire. Well, life is still brutal here. There is no proper shelter...There is no basic services. There is no safety, no security,” acting Executive Director of the WFP Carl Skau told Reuters. The agency says that two-thirds of Gaza's population suffer crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, including about 200,000 facing what it deems emergency conditions.
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Saudi Arabia
Bangladesh says it is seeking answers from authorities in Saudi Arabia after two Bangladeshi nationals were executed in the holy city of Mecca without the government in Dhaka being informed. The Bangladeshis, a man and a women, were put to death after they were convicted of committing “indecent acts” inside a mosque. Riyadh provided no further information on the nature of the acts. Bangladesh is reported to have requested details on the offenses involved and on the legal proceedings. Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most prolific users of the death penalty. At least 175 people have been executed so far this year, according to Amnesty International, the majority of them foreign nationals.
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