Uganda, Haiti, Palestine
Today's three stories you should know
Uganda
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has been sworn in for a seventh term, extending his 40-year rule for another five years. Although this will likely be the 81-year-old’s final stint in office, his son, army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, is widely believed to be lined up as his successor. Kainerugaba, a publicly belligerent presence who has threatened to kill opposition politicians, will not have an unchallenged route to office, analysts say, with opponents in the ruling party and opposition leaders likely to resist. After coming to power in 1986, Museveni now infamously wrote: "The problem of Africa in general, and Uganda in particular, is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power."
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NB: Proximities has previously published a deep dive on Uganda here.
Haiti
Hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince as a new wave of gang violence gripped the city. The country spiralled into chaos after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, and criminal gangs now control a staggering 90 percent of Port-au-Prince. The U.N. Security Council last September authorised a deployment of an international force to help the government battle the gangs and the first troops arrived in April. According to the International Organization for Migration, the fighting has displaced more than 1.4 million people, with 200,000 living in poor conditions in the capital.
More from Al Jazeera here.
NB: Proximities has previously published a deep dive on Haiti here.
Palestine
Israeli forces and settlers have killed almost 70 children in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem since early 2025, the U.N. children’s agency has said, amounting to roughly one a week. About 800 were also wounded, UNICEF added. “These are not isolated incidents. They point to a sustained pattern of the worst kind of violation - violations against children,” spokesperson James Elder said after a visit to the West Bank. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Israel’s two-and-a-half-year war on Gaza, according to authorities in the Palestinian enclave and international aid groups.
More from Reuters here.