Source: Morning Star News, June 22, 2023
On June 16 [Islamic militants] killed at least 37 students, most of them Christians, at the dormitories of a private high school in Uganda, and kidnapped six others, sources said.
Shouting “Allahu akbar [God is greater],” according to the BBC, the assailants killed the students at Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Kasese District, hacking the girls with machetes and burning the boys to death by setting their dormitory on fire. Five non-students at the school were also killed, Ugandan officials said, and four students were wounded.
A survivor, student Edgard Mumbere, told Morning Star News that armed assailants shouted for the boys to open their dormitory door, with one attacker saying, “This school is propagating Christianity in Uganda and getting support from Christians in the West—Islam should be the dominant religion in Uganda.”
Also read about Kahambu Kahindo, a student in Uganda who has hopes of returning home to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help children orphaned by continuing sectarian violence in the area (International Christian Concern). Uganda, which hosts more refugees than any other African country, is also on the brink of a massive food crisis (MAF).
Another heartbreaking story comes from Somalia, where some mothers are poisoning their children in order to get much-needed resources (Toronto Star, h/t Justin Long).