Uganda, Gaza, Sudan

Today's three stories you should know

Uganda

We’ve covered the run-up to Uganda’s presidential election, which took place yesterday, frequently in Proximities and noted that the result was likely to be disputed. Tonight, an extraordinary development. As preliminary results put longtime President Yoweri Museveni in a commanding lead at 74 percent of the vote, the party of main opposition leader Bobi Wine said he had been “forcibly removed” from his house by the army and taken by helicopter to an unknown location. Wine, who the electoral commission said was at 23 percent, had accused the government of fraud and called on his supporters to protest.

More from Reuters here.

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Gaza

The Israeli military said its forces shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank because he was “running towards them carrying a rock.” According to local reports, Mohammed Naasan was killed during an Israeli raid on the village of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah, during which residents were assaulted. Naasan was shot in the back and chest, the Palestinian news agency Wafa said. Palestinians in the West Bank have faced escalating violence from Israeli forces and settlers since the war on Gaza began in 2023.

More from Al Jazeera here.

Sudan

Food aid to war-torn Sudan, in the grip of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, will run out by the end of March unless additional funding is secured, the U.N. said today. According to the World Food Programme, more than 21 million people, almost half of the country’s population, are now facing acute food insecurity with two-thirds of people in need of some form of assistance. The U.N. said earlier this week that it was expecting children to starve to death “within days” in the Darfur region as famine conditions persisted. Sudan’s military has been at war with its former allies in the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group for more than two and a half years.

More from France 24 here.