Uganda, Burkina Faso, Libya
Today's three stories you should know
Uganda
Four children, aged from two to three years old, have been stabbed to death by a man wielding a machete at a nursery school in the Ugandan capital Kampala. A 39-year-old man, named by police as Okello Christopher Onyum, was arrested at the scene after being apprehended and beaten by angry parents. In a post on X, police said they were questioning Onyum “as investigations continue to establish his motive, background, and any other relevant circumstances surrounding this heinous crime.” The three boys and one girl were killed instantly, police said, adding that the man was in possession of several knives. A police spokesperson, Racheal Kawala, said the man had visited the school earlier in the week to inquire about enrolling a child there and had been told to return today.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s military has killed more than 1,200 civilians since taking power in a coup three years ago, including the ethnic cleansing of members of the Fulani community, a rights group said in a new report. Burkina Faso and neighboring countries have for years been locked in a war with al-Qaeda and ISIS-linked groups, the most powerful of which is Jama’at Nusrat al‑Islam wa al‑Muslimin. The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said all sides had committed atrocities but found that out of 1,837 civilians murdered between January 2023 and August 2025, 1,255 were killed by the army and its allies. HRW said President Ibrahim Traore, the country’s hugely popular leader who took power pledging to defeat the armed groups, should be investigated for grave abuses.
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Libya
The forces of Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar, whose administration controls the east of the divided country, appear to have acquired Chinese and Turkish combat drones despite a U.N. arms embargo, according to a Reuters report. Satellite images showed at least three drones at the Al Khadim airbase, which is located in the desert about 100 kilometers from the city of Benghazi. A civil war raged in Libya from 2014 to 2020 as Haftar attempted to topple a U.N.-recognized government in the capital Tripoli. Since a ceasefire was agreed in 2020, the country has been effectively divided between Haftar’s government in the east and the administration of Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah in the west.
More from Reuters here.