News in Brief
Over 40 dead in Uganda attack
AP – Ugandan authorities recovered the bodies of 41 people, including 38 students, who were burned, shot or hacked to death after suspected rebels attacked a secondary school near the border with Congo, the local mayor said Saturday. At least six people were abducted by the rebels, who fled across the porous border into Congo after the raid on Friday night.
Mpondwe-Lhubiriha Mayor Selevest Mapoze said that some of the students suffered fatal burns when the rebels set fire to a dormitory and others were shot or hacked with machetes.
Ukraine won’t have ‘easy’ path to join NATO: Biden
AFP – The United States won’t make special arrangements for Ukraine to join the NATO military alliance, President Joe Biden said Saturday.
“They’ve got to meet the same standards. So, we’re not going to make it easy,” the US president told reporters near Washington.
Mali calls for end of UN mission
AFP – Mali’s foreign minister called Friday for the UN Security Council to withdraw the peacekeeping mission in his country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges. The country’s military rulers have increasingly imposed operational restrictions on peacekeepers and also broke Mali’s longstanding alliance with former colonial power France.
Khartoum air strikes kills 17
REUTERS – Air strikes killed civilians and pummeled multiple parts of the Sudanese capital on Saturday, residents said, as mediators pushed the warring factions towards a new ceasefire.
The Khartoum Health Ministry confirmed a report by local volunteers on Saturday that 17 people including five children were killed in the Mayo area of southern Khartoum and 25 homes destroyed.